Can someone recommend a good Firewire 800 drive for use with Logic Plat. 6 OSX. and my Powerbook? I was looking into Avid FW drives, but their 10,000 rpm drive requires a PCI card controller. Something 80-200 gigs will do, but I want something really fast as I am coming off of working on a protools system with a 10,000 rpm UW Avid drive. Any recommendations welcome! /m

Mati <zurich.enteract@r...> wrote: > Can someone recommend a good Firewire 800 drive for use with Logic > Plat. 6 OSX. and my Powerbook? > > I was looking into Avid FW drives, but their 10,000 rpm drive requires > a PCI card controller. Something 80-200 gigs will do, but I want > something really fast as I am coming off of working on a protools > system with a 10,000 rpm UW Avid drive. > > Any recommendations welcome! A name that crops up time and again is Lacie. I just bought their Big Disk 320 Gbyte model, and, while I obviously can't speak from any great experience, it is very solidly built, quiet, and seems very quick - none of the Track/Sample playback tests I have done so far have caused any problems with it. This included Logic arrangements with 70+ channels, up to 35 24 bit/44.1 Khz audio tracks playing simultaneously, and with typically 2 Kontakt and 4 EXS instances, playing large sample sets - piano, drums, Pads, Percussion, Bass etc. On my desktop machine, I have seperate drives for audio and samples. On the Lacie, they are all on one partition. For more information: http://www.lacie.com I should mention, I am running it with a Windows XP laptop. From the many positive comments here on the LUG, I think it should work just fine with a Powerbook. HTH, kind regards Mark Cahill