On 7/3/06, Dave Phillips <dlphillips@xxxxxxxxxx> wrote: <SNIP>
I haven't yet decided what HD to buy, I see good prices on 320G drives, but I'm tempted to stay with my usual plan and install two drives, maybe two 160G drives. I'm especially interested in finding out if there are particular brands to avoid, and of course I'd like to know the recommended brands.
<SNIP> While I nominally do not like the idea of two drives as it most certainly will cause more noise, one nice longer term option you can look toward is that if you put two drives in today, using one as a system drive and the second as an audio drive, should you get interested later you can take the audio drive, place it in a 1394 drive enclosure and move the drive external to the box. Once you do this you can use your Ardour sessions on other machines as well as install the laptop toolset and spin down the system drive completely for less noise. Good luck with however you go. - Mark
