--- In logic-users@yahoogroups.com, Nick Batzdorf <recording@...> wrote: > > From: "Andrew Hunt" andy@... > > The best performing drives are Western Digital Raptors, which have > seek times about half what standard SATA drives have. But the largest > one is only 150GB or so, and it's much more expensive than standard > SATA drives. Right now the best compromise between price and storage > capacity (the largest drives are always more expensive per GB) is 400 > or 500GB, I think; the most recent drive I bought is a 500GB Maxtor > drive that I believe was $229. > > > > Nick Batzdorf, editor/publisher I have written quite a bit about the terrible prolems I have been having with Logic and my setup. Now I have found the problem and I am very very annoyed about it. As it turns out, Raptor drives are NOT compatible with G5s, so I have not been having Logic problems after all. I have to say that I am quite amazed by this, but it is true. It is now in the WD knowledgebase in a very small article, and on the phone they acknowledge it. Strangely it doe not say this on any of the product information, and I have not found many references to the problem on forums. In fact I only found one reference to the problem where someone was talking about the drive intermittently 'falling asleep'. The drive 'hangs up' which is what is causing my many spinning beach balls and total computer freezes. I am suprised no one else has mentioned it, but I think that the admission on the WD site is quite new and they are obviously now very keen to publicize it. Anyone with a Raptor and G5 with problem please send me a message. I have wasted a lot of time, energy and money on this problem and would like to know how many others have done the same. Regards, Chris