Got Pro tools and need an external hard drive??

I need an external hard drive that works with pro tools le. Any suggestions??

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You should look for a firewire drive with a drive speed of at least 7500

also load your machine with as much RAM as possible.

yeah. I dont have a fire wire port on my laptop. only option is usb.

been looking at seagate hard drives. Thinking of getting one.

If your port is at least USB 2 you'll be ok for small projects.

The seagate cheatah was my drive for years, I've only recently switched to Western Digital and that seems to run fine but I made sure it was not a 5200 speed.

how many gigs should I need for a small project? I got the electric drums on one track, guitar on 2, bass on 1 and then vocals.

how many mb do one song usally run??

can you work from the western digital hard drive. I need to be able to save my work and work from the same usb hard drive.

I looked at the western digital my studio. Which western digital would you recomend?

figure 5mb per minute per track. So a stereo track is 10mb per minute.

Western Digital is fine as long as the drive speed is 7500 or better. Anything slower is going to bonk.

so im going to be able to save my work and work from my sessions using any western digital usb hard drive?? Just making sure cause Im gonna purchase one really soon.

thanks again.

tell ya what. Save the receipt. If for whatever reason it doesn't work, bring it back.

For me. I would use a firewire drive. I would use a Seagate Cheetah. I would have a dedicated PCI card to handle the heavy lifting of the AD/DA work.

Everything after that is a compromise.

If you're not trying to stuff 8 tracks live down the USB pipe, you're going to be fine. Go make music.

word!

thanks again bro.