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In the Thread: The best practices for DAW Data Storage.
Post Subject: USB 2.0 speedPosted by Antonio J. on: 9/24/2007
The top speed this link can reach is supposed to be 480Mbps, but real speeds for bulk transfer, if no other devices are using the bus, are more in the 40-320Mbps range. I guess that's way beyond any audio files transfer speeds, being 44.1/16 wav at 1411Kbps which is about 1.4Mbps. Two channel 24/88.2 audio shouldn't require a speed much higher than 4410 Kbps.
I'm using an external USB harddrive, a Maxtor, which's been working flawlessly for 3 years, it's silent and doesn't take much space. Never experienced any dropouts or skips while playing redbook wav files on my computer, and it shares bus with a printer and a DVD-R burner. But for ripping/recording I rather use one of the internal SCSI drivers since data flows at much higher speeds than playback ones.
A friend of mine used a handsome looking Lacie drive, more expensive and supposedly better than the Maxtor, but it failed about 3 months after purchase. It was replaced for a new one under the warranty terms, and the new one failed too just some weeks after the warranty expired.
Probably some of those new units of 1 or 1.2 Terabytes which now sell for less than 300 euros is a decent solution.
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