On 8/3/07, Dragan Noveski <perodog@xxxxxxx> wrote: > Mark Knecht wrote: > > USB 2.0 is plenty fast for recording audio tracks. you should not have > > a problem with that at all, assuming it's a good disk and the system's > > USB implementation is done correctly. > > > > Just mount the drive and run hdparm -tT to get an idea of the drive's > > speed. I'm sure it will be fine. > > > > Cheers, > > Mark > > > > > mark, very much thanks for the response! > i think i ll go for a combination of an ata-laptop-drive, with this > usb-case-adapter for it. > that seems cheap, and i do not need an extra power chord for the > external drive than - which is important for me, since everything runs > on solarpower, 12Vdc here. > > cheers, > doc Sounds nice not to have the power cords. I've got 3 Firewire drives and often get tired of all the power connections. Each drive has a different power supply and I've got to get them matched up correctly. A small drive that gets power from the bus would be far nicer for fast setup and tear down. Good luck. - Mark _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/linux-audio-user
