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VO-BB - 19 YEARS OLD! Where A.I. is a four-letter word.
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bobsouer Frequent Flyer
Joined: 15 Jul 2006 Posts: 9882 Location: Pittsburgh, PA
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 1:14 pm Post subject: |
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Caryn,
For external drive use with Pro Tools, I've found that Firewire drives, as a general rule, work better than USB drives. There are some folks using USB drives successfully, so that's not a hard and fast rule.
As for brands, I'm partial to LaCie and Seagate drives. No doubt others have other opinions. _________________ Be well,
Bob Souer (just think of lemons)
The second nicest guy in voiceover.
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Frank F Fat, Old, and Sassy
Joined: 10 Nov 2004 Posts: 4421 Location: Park City, Utah
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 1:29 pm Post subject: |
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Caryn,
Just a little note... get a fast drive (7200 RPM) or a SATA drive. I am not a real fan of Western Digital, but many people swear by them.
eBay is a wonderful source for low cost external hard drives... check and see if you have firewire (Yes, I agree with Bob Souer on firewire vs. USD - although I have both and they work fine) or USB 2.0 - NOT USB 1.0. The latter USB 1.0 is not fast enough throughput to maintain good audio.
Good luck in your search.
Toodles
Frank F _________________ Be thankful for the bad things in life. They opened your eyes to the good things you weren't paying attention to before. email: thevoice@usa.com |
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Yoda117 M&M
Joined: 20 Dec 2006 Posts: 2362 Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 3:26 pm Post subject: |
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Hart wrote: | I believe most if not all "experts" recommend not running anti virus on your digital audio workstation. And yes, that really only works if pro tools/audition/whatever is setup is on a dedicated machine without internet or perhaps even network access. |
No, I disagree. If anyone accesses the DAW other than you, you ever plan on adding any SW (OEM or otherwise), and you'll never use the CD player or USB drives to transfer information, read files, etc., then you need AV regardless of whether it's connected to anything else.
If it accesses a network, you need a firewall.
If it accesses the Internet, you need a priest.
Seriously though, how valuable is the data on your system to you? How important is the confidentiality, integrity, or availability of the system and data to you?
If the answer is "not at all", then you don't need AV or firewall (IDS and IPS depending on your insanity and/or risk level), otherwise you need them.
For HDs, it doesn't matter really. Both FW and USB are viable (though every test I've seen had the USB edging out FW for HDs running at 7200 RPMs and below, FW for higher speeds, and fiber channel for the truly insane). FW edges out USB for CD/DVD. Grab an enclosure off of e-Bay for a few bucks, then grab some of the "silent drive" series from WD (personal preference, as Seagate has always been noisy and Maxtor has had some QC issues as of late IMO) and voila', you have an enclosure with room for expansion.
Or... you could always just go out and grab a solid state drive. Limited lifespan, expensive, but uber-silent. _________________ Voiceovers by Gregory Houser
Philadelphia based Voice Actor
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Chuck Davis M&M
Joined: 02 Feb 2005 Posts: 2389 Location: Where I love to be...Between the Vineyards and the Cows.
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Posted: Fri Sep 14, 2007 5:07 pm Post subject: |
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One more bit on the external drive issue. Check Digi for specs regarding the chipset in your external drive enclosure. The favored type has been "Oxford 911"...others tend to not "play as nicely".
If you to a search on Newegg.com you'll find some that have that spec.
I use firewire external drive all the time to shuttle sessions between my Connecticut and Boston studios. The "Venus" enclosure (FW and USB2) with a 300gb Seagate EIDE drive (7200rpm 16mb cache) works flawlessly for me and holds a boatload of files. Probably 60 or so sessions, all my music and FX librarys and both DJuice SFX packages. And still room to spare. _________________ Wicked huge.....in India.
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Tom Test DC
Joined: 23 Jan 2007 Posts: 625 Location: Chicago, IL
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Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:19 am Post subject: I use AVG Free also |
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Another recommendation for AVG here. I've had no problems running AVG 7.5 free antivirus on my audio PC. I use Sound Forge 7. I've only got an Athlon 3.0 chip, but the system is optimized for audio and is actually VERY fast. _________________ Best regards,
Tom Test
"The Voice You Trust"
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Jowillie Lucky 700
Joined: 20 Aug 2006 Posts: 714 Location: North Carolina
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Posted: Tue Sep 18, 2007 10:57 am Post subject: |
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Quote: | optimized for audio |
Now there's another topic for beneficial discussion.
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CarynClark MMD
Joined: 28 Feb 2007 Posts: 2697 Location: Fort Myers, FL
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Posted: Tue Oct 23, 2007 8:11 pm Post subject: |
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I want you all to know, that I've taken much of your advice.
A couple of weeks ago, I pulled Panda off and downloaded AVG. Runs great, and has really helped with those pesky buffer messages. They're few and far between now.
Tonight I bought an external hard drive... a Western Digital 250GB MyBook. Backing up as I type. Then I'll test it to see if I can just work off of it... I assume I can... that's the point, right? I'm hoping this will help with my "snap, crackle, pop" issues of late (see "Snap Crackle Pop" post from today). They're intermittent, but still there. I think my Symetrix, or a cable from the mic to the Symetrix, might be bad. Hopefully just the cable... though I don't know. I can hear the snapping, etc. when I turn the knobs on the Symetrix.
And, I think I might soon be an Audition 1.5 convert. I now have it... but haven't figured out how to use it. I'll have to play with it. I taught myself the basic needs in ProTools... hopefully I can figure out Audition.
THANKS!!! Your advice does not go unheeded!!! You all are wonderful to help me!!! _________________ Caryn Clark... The Hip Chick Voice!
"A positive mental attitude and having faith in your ability is quite different from being irresponsible and downright stupid." - Dave |
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louzucaro The Gates of Troy
Joined: 13 Jul 2006 Posts: 1915 Location: Chicago area
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Posted: Wed Oct 24, 2007 9:22 pm Post subject: |
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If your computer is dedicated to running your audio stuff (and not a general use computer) there really is no reason to have anti-virus software installed at all.
At the most, have some good anti-spyware software running for while you're online, if anything. That way stuff can't install without you initiating it. _________________ Lou Zucaro
http://www.voicehero.com
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ccpetersen With a Side of Awesome
Joined: 19 Sep 2007 Posts: 3708 Location: In Coherent
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Posted: Thu Oct 25, 2007 3:41 am Post subject: |
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Most AVGs and firewalls have settings that don't auto-initiate downloads and updates. You just have to remember to update them weekly manually. You should be running antivirus,no matter what. As someone else said, if you get files from others, take stuff off of CDs, etc. then you are at risk.
I've never had problems with the audio tools I use vis-a-vis firewalls and anti-virus. I use Zonealarm firewall and AV. I also check for viruses pretty frequently using Spyware blaster and others.
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