Seagate Barrracudas

Music Manic · Post by **Music Manic** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:43 am

Have Seagate advanced with any of their IDE hard drives?
Which is the best one for audio?

Thanks

darkrezin · Post by **darkrezin** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 5:47 am

I've had great results with Seagate IDE and SATA disks. I'd recommend buying any of them, just find the ones with the biggest cache.

miguel · Post by **miguel** » Tue Jun 20, 2006 12:12 pm

I have a rather old 60Gb Barracuda. It comes nicely filled with insulation. Very silent as stardust points out.

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Thu Jun 22, 2006 6:22 pm

Darkrezin,.... The All Seeing, The Mighty.
Once again is correct. I first bought the WD360G, it was fast and quiet 4 10k SATA HDD. So I bought another. No problemo. Then came the 740G, twice the storage capacity, and faster access times, great. I figured they couldn't get any better. But with Gigastudio 10k rpm is a boost in the polyphony department. Then came Raptor X. And the hits just keep coming, as this 16MB cache is exactly what made the 15k rpm Cheetah w/16MB cache, such a bad MOFO for A/V fanatics. 4 streaming audio, the bigger the better I suppose, as eveyone loves 500GB SATA II HDD's. But 4 Gigastudio, the Raptor X is the ultimate HDD. The 16MB cache really helps with the VST FX counts somehow, as on the 3.4GHz EE the Gigapulse counts were good, just as a test, as I use Lexicon live instead, but with the same RAM and CPU my VST FX counts went up drastically. As I am not computer savvy, I can only say that it works, but w/o explanation. So I await my fellow pulsarians to finish off my statements prior. As 4 anyone using Gigastudio, this dog will hunt. BTW I use slow ECC DDR RAM w/ D865PERL chipset, never one crash period, except when I upgraded GS3 beta to GS3.12. Upgrades are over rated IMHO, but not when it comes to Raptors 4 audio live.

dawman · Post by **dawman** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 2:39 pm

Sorry Darky,
Just realised you said Seagate, I thought you meant the best as in Western Digital.

Ankuvarymush

darkrezin · Post by **darkrezin** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 3:43 pm

Western Digital seems pretty good too these days. I steer clear of Maxtor though, a few bad experiences with those.

astroman · Post by **astroman** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 7:03 pm

Maxtor was recently aquired by Seagate and the latest Barracudas all have a label 'content made in China' on the package...

my supplier receives quite some broken WDs recently, but that's usually office and not high performance stuff, most likely a different construction than the ones Scope4Live uses.

cheers, tom

Post by **garyb** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 7:27 pm

i really like WD...long warranties are a good sign...

i've also never had problems with seagates or toshibas. maxtors have been very good when they're good, but very bad when bad. every bad drive i've had to deal with has been a maxtor, probably 1 in 5 has gone bad. i don't know if just people i know are getting all the bad ones or...

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dawman · Post by **dawman** » Sat Jun 24, 2006 8:31 pm

Gigastudio usually beats up on a HDD pretty well. So if streaming is your goal, it's a good bet. I personally never owned a Cheetah 15k rpm w/ 16MB cache. But years back when they came out they were the A/V rage. I usually saw stacks of RAID 3 arrays in studios that put smiles on engineers faces. The performance of HDD's since those were released have topped out IMHO. Thus motherboard RAID and many other server features had to trickle down to us serfs, and peasants. The dust seemed to settle with the 74GB Raptor, as the increase in size and cache is the only upgrade with the X's. Astroman is tired of me saying this, but I would love to see RAM based storage get larger, faster, and cheaper. It is the only way to go, as magnetic storage is on it's last legs IMHO.