I would always get Western digital red or equivalent, they are designed for continuous operation and last much longer and you can get the hd and put it in an enclosure which is what I have done. I much prefer the enclosure to have a fan -- keeps the drive cool and lasts much longer.
On Sun, 19 Nov 2017 22:39:20 -0500, Slau Halatyn wrote: > > [1 <text/plain; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>] > [2 <text/html; UTF-8 (quoted-printable)>] > Cool. And like Nickus said, Seagates are great. I've just also had good > experiences with Western Digital which, in my case, happened to be HGST, a > company owned by Western Digital. > Cheers, > Slau > > On Nov 19, 2017, at 7:27 PM, Nathaniel Kile <[email protected]> wrote: > > Hello Slau, > > Thank you for taking the time to give me some recommendations. I am going to > head over to Amazon and see what I can pick up. > > Nate Kile, > > Assistive Technology Instructor, Tech Vision > > Specialist in Technology/Training/Teaching for blind/low vision/virtual > instruction for schools > > Also Private training to your needs > > 907-444-3707 > > Website with hundreds of informational articles & lessons on PC, Office > products, Mac, iPad/iTools and more, all done with keystrokes: > www.yourtechvision.com > > From: [email protected] [mailto:[email protected]] On Behalf > Of Slau Halatyn > Sent: Sunday, November 19, 2017 10:39 AM > To: PTAccess List <[email protected]> > Subject: Re: What external hard drives are being used? > > Hi Nate, > > I've had great experiences with both Western Digital and seagate drives. In > every case, they were either seventy-two hundred or ten thousand rpm drives > for the HDD models. I've used the same brands for the SSD drives for sample > libraries but not for recording. I've never used them via USB, although > these days, USB 3 is plenty fast. Thus far, I've used 1 terabyte drives but > now looking into eight or ten terabyte models for HDD. As always, SSDs are > crazy > expensive when getting into those capacities. If this is for recording, 7200 > rpm HDDs are plenty fast and you can pick them up for around seventy dollars. > > Slau > > On Nov 19, 2017, at 1:56 PM, Nathaniel Kile <[email protected]> wrote: > > Sorry, a little off topic, but I respect the opinions of people on this list > more than some of the more popular lists. > > Looking to get an external hard drive for my new setup, I will need to go > USB, and I have found that others are having success with this. What are your > thoughts on USB and external drive brands around here on the list? > > Thanks, Regards, > > Nate Kile, > > Assistive Technology Instructor, Tech Vision > > Specialist in Technology/Training/Teaching for blind/low vision/virtual > instruction for schools > > Also Private training to your needs > > 907-444-3707 > > Website with hundreds of informational articles & lessons on PC, Office > products, Mac, iPad/iTools and more, all done with keystrokes: > www.yourtechvision.com > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. > -- Your life is like a penny. You're going to lose it. The question is: How do you spend it? John Covici [email protected] -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
