external hard drives

hello all,

so here i am with my laptop...a dell xps 2.3 core duo 2gb ram and all the fixins...except...my hard drive is small! 80GB! and i am also a gamer! anyhow i have about 10 gb left.

so here i am at frys electronics today, and i see many, many external hard drives...

i wanted something with around 250gb, and bus powered...they do have bus powered drives, but the max buffer you get is 8mb, and a 5400 rpm speed....

i decided to go with the buffal0 250gb bus powered drive.... the only gripe i have is i found out that when i choose a track from the drive, and drag it over to deck a or b, it takes maybe 1.5 or 2 seconds for the track to actually load up...other than that it works nicely...

anyhow i was curious to see if others are using bus powered drives with 5400 rpms, or the more larger and dc powered ones...the one i got seriosuly fits in the palm of my hand--its about the size of 2 iphones.

thanks!

 

http://www.native-instruments.com/forum_de/showthread.php?t=62091

 

You should try FireWire drives they're faster...or try AC powered drives with Turbo from Buffalo...my friend and I have one....no problems at all!

 

yeah i wanted a firewwire as well, but my motu ultralie sound card takes up the firwire spot....

anyhow i enjoy my purchase of the buffallo mini station....even though it is 8mb cache...

my question is how much of a difference would i notice i bumped the cache up to lets say 16 or 32?

 

Well not much difference....try it and see how your system handles it with different bpm and loops!

 

well all seems well with the buffalo ministation.....however i still have my collection on my laptop HD!

i am weary of putting all my music on that hard drrive....i think i will just create some dvds to back up my music as well....lol

 

Good thinking...just back them to other hard drives also!