How Do You Choose A Hard Drive For Audio Recording?
Choosing the right hard drive for recording audio is of paramount importance. It is often assumed that the internal hard drive originally installed in their computer will be suitable. It is important to dedicate a separate hard drive for your audio recordings and one for your system respectively. When using the system drive for recording massive files, it will bog down the system. I will offer a few pointers for choosing the best hard drive for your recording. This will provide for a lean and mean computer recording system. What I look for with an external hard drive are two things: 1) It’s transfer rate 2) The hardware protocol The two most widely used internal hard drives are: 1) IDE 2) SATA There are three common types of external hard drives: 1) USB 2) FW 400 (firewire) 3) FW 800 (firewire) Most computers provide multiple open slots to accommodate extra hard drives. The drives are generally much cheaper since they do not require an elaborate enclosure specific to the external drive
