300 gig for Audio

Hello

Is anyone using a 300 gig hard drive for audio? I use a western digital 150 gig IDE right now and need to upgrade. I am hearing disturbing clicks and getting messages that say it is no able to keep up. I tried to do a de-frag and it seemed to hang on me. I want to ghost to another drive but not sure if the 300 gig size causes other issues

I use protools le 7.3 on a amd 2800

Thanks in advance

Tim

I stream audio from 300 GB hard drives, but not with protools

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I use a 300G external HD for audio and have not had a problem in the two years I've had it.

The size of a drive is NOT the issue.

if you partition it to 2x 150GB partitions, the outer [first] partition will be faster than a 150GB drive.

Size does not matter as long as you are not running out of space. What to look at is rotation speed, data transmittion rates, and most importantly not using the same drive for recording, streaming samples, and running the OS/virtual memory.

Thanks very much for the replies,

I was able to fix this strange problem with a new drive. I was able to backup and then defrag the old drive. i copied some of the files that were not working onto the new 320gig drive and it works fine.

This was quite odd, even after the defragmenting the old drive, certain files/songs would not play giving me this message saying the drive could not keep up and others would work fine.

Thanks again

Tim

Did you do just a file defrag, or and file and disk defrag?

What if the new drive has two platters?

Just {censored}in with ya.

I can think of two

ONE SHOULD READ ALL OF THIS:

Just had a 100 gigger crap out on me.

Snuck up right when I was mixing down my cd: suddenly files won't play back. Reboot, CRC errors, clusters going bad.

So now I'm trying to copy over to another drive what I can so I can archive it to DVD.

In PIO mode. Slowwww...

.. and what I lost was the main stuff I was putting on my cd; things I had backed up, but not in the past week - when I've basically retracked a lot of stuff, and made a lot of changes.

So, my current cd project is now finished.

Finished prematurely.

Which is fine, I have way too much to get out of my brain and it's a clean slate, and not stuff that I was trying to change from a demo into something "more"... so I'm telling myself. Because otherwise, I've wasted a lot of time.

WHY YOU SHOULD HAVE READ ALL OF THE ABOVE:

I'm not going to do a "large drive" anymore. It doesn't make any sense.

You don't need 200 gigs to do one project; if you need more, then you should have stuff backed up anyhow.

Likewise, I'm going to a RAID 0+1 arrangement. I've got two 40 giggers laying unused on a table next to me, and two 60's in the audio computer I presume still work fine... 40 gigs of workspace at a time should be enough for me, I hope...

/ dreads continuing this dirge-like "backup recovery" process

// dumb trying to keep years and years of stuff on single drives

/// dumb not letting go of stuff

Some advice- If you have a drive {censored} the bed on you, stick it in the fridge for a few hours and then try it... You should be able to back up the info on it to another drive before it heats up too much. Even better is to put it in an external enclosure and back it up to another drive while its sandwiched between two cold packs. Its saved my butt in the past....

Hello Offramp,

I did a disk defrag. using the administrative tools > computer Management

It did not seem to help the files in question. I did not know of another defragment option.

It's becoming increasingly difficult to even find smaller hard drives.

Thanks for the tip. We have drives go out pretty often. Our normal proceedure is to put them in an external enclosure and try them on both Win 98 and XP computers. Some operating systems are more forgiving of errors than others. I'll try sticking it in the fridge first.