Members ceremony74 Posted June 22, 2007 Members Share Posted June 22, 2007 now with 4gb usb 2.0 flash drives cheaper than ever, and with the good ones with excellent speed transfers, what about using flash memory to record digital audio rather than hard drives? i mean, the DAW is installed in the main HD, but using a pen drive as an external disk... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members ggm1960 Posted June 22, 2007 Members Share Posted June 22, 2007 Sounds like a good idea. Then back it up to HD later. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members zeronyne Posted June 22, 2007 Members Share Posted June 22, 2007 Roland and Zoom (and others) have been doing it for a while. Let us know how it goes...I'd be interested in throughput and track count. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Anderton Posted June 22, 2007 Members Share Posted June 22, 2007 I've done it quite a few times, usually you just need to re-set the default audio drive in your program's preferences. It's also crucial to use USB 2.0 not 1.1 Honestly, with hard drives being so friggin' fast these days, I didn't notice that much improvement on smaller projects...and didn't have enough space for bigger projects, I got into this back when flash drives were 128/256 MB or so. I should revisit the concept using a bigger drive... But it does indeed work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Members Cry Logic Posted June 23, 2007 Members Share Posted June 23, 2007 I've also used a Flash drive for the swap file on a PC which seemed to go OK.Until I forgot that I had the USB stick in a slot on the side of my box & leaned the box over while changing out some ram......SNAP!!!Must get another one..... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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