I consider buying an external HD for transporting stuff around because it seems that burning DVDs is taking up more and more time. Can I buy anything or is there something I should look out for. I'm not going to spend a lot of money on this, it's only to make life a little easier when dealing with 50 GB projects and not wanting to go back to the studio to change DVDs 10 times.

On Feb 2, 2006, at 4:02 AM, HKC wrote: > I consider buying an external HD for transporting stuff around because > it seems that burning DVDs is taking up more and more time. Can I buy > anything or is there something I should look out for. I'm not > going to > spend a lot of money on this, it's only to make life a little easier > when dealing with 50 GB projects and not wanting to go back to the > studio to change DVDs 10 times. > Hi H, I use 3 firewire drives. 1 150 gig Glyph net drive, to travel with 1 200gig Seagate (forgot the model, but a basic 7200rpm desktop kind) for all my samples/SFX libraries and elements, and sessions in progress. 1 250gig EZ drive as my session backup drive. they work great this way and have not had a problem at all all of them are 7200rpm drives, off the shelf, no extra stuff, formatted by my mac. The real handy one is the 150gig for when I travel, nothing cooler than going through a maze of airports with the drive in the bag, beats the old days when I had to hand off tape cases to the security personel. ;) Good Luck Ciao Gio