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Windows Forum / Windows Vista / Hardware / May 2008Reliable fast external HDD needed
Hi - I have a brand new and fast laptop with a 7200 RPM internal drive. Having just irreparably crashed my old external drive I am on the hunt for a new one. I'd like to partition it and make it dual use - storage in a 100 GB partitian and direct write for recording multichanel music in real time in the other. For recording, I need something that is really fast, reliable and upwards of 400 GB. It doesn't have to be pretty and it doesn't have to have a case. I can sort that out. Both USB and firewire preferable, although again I can fix that with the correct case. I've read some poor reports about Seagate drives then read a review of the Seagate FreeAgent Pro, which was favourable. Pretty flash, though, perhaps at the cost of performance. The drive that physically crashed only a year into its life was a Samsung so I've gone right off this brand. I have a fairly new Western Digital 500 GB but it is extremely slow. Any advice approeciated. You should have gotten a laptop with an eSata port. That would give you the fastest throughput, several times faster than USB or firewire. I have a WD My Book that is 1,000 GB that supports USB, firewire and eSata. I can record two TV shows to it at the same time through the USB without any problems, its fast enough for that. I don't know how much data the real time music uses per second, but it would seem less than two TV shows that include stereo music each and 720 by 480 video. Checking the properties of a TV video shows, sound at 5316 kbps, and video at 80179 kbps for each show. > Hi - I have a brand new and fast laptop with a 7200 RPM internal drive. > Having just irreparably crashed my old external drive I am on the hunt for [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Any advice approeciated. As Gary says, an eSATA port is the way to go. You will not get what you want with usb or firewire. However, you can add an eSATA port if you have an ExpressCard 34/54 slot. There are several eSATA adaptors on the market and you can buy an external SATA enclosure and drive for it. > Hi - I have a brand new and fast laptop with a 7200 RPM internal drive. > Having just irreparably crashed my old external drive I am on the hunt for [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Any advice approeciated. Mike is correct, pbl. I did follow these steps and it works for me. I use the info on Microsoft Article ID:929461 and that was my same problem solution. You need to run this steps with Administartor Credentials and be very precise on every key you hit, because you will be in the RegEdit area.  SignatureJesus Dela Rosa > Hi - I have a brand new and fast laptop with a 7200 RPM internal drive. > Having just irreparably crashed my old external drive I am on the hunt for a [quoted text clipped - 12 lines] > > Any advice approeciated. |
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