Bob Campbell
09-29-1999, 06:14 AM
If you are using UW scsi or U2W scsi, and you are looking for a new hard drive, but are not sure because of the minefield of different drives out there, I have a recommendation for everyone.
A) If you want silly performance and price is no object, get the IBM Ultrastar LZX 4mb buffer U2W 68-pin drive. Either the 9.1 or the 18 are stunning drives and very very good for audio.
B) If you are looking for exceptional audio performance but are on more of a budget, you should look at the IBM Ultrastar DNES-309170 (9 gig model) or 318350 (18 gig model). This is a U2W drive, but they are backward compatible, so if you have a UW card like the 2940UW it will work with the U2W drive. Then at a later date if you upgrade your scsi to U2W you will get even better performance.
The performance of this drive is not far behind the LZX model, but at almost half the price.
This drive is a 2mb buffer U2W drive, with a 7200 rotation speed and an average seek time of 7ms. It is also very quiet. To put it into audio performance figures, in Logic Audio for example, playback 8 stereo tracks of audio, and the system performance meter simply does not light up. Much the same goes for Cubase VST. If you use Gigasampler, you will find that even on a machine as slow as a 333, you can play at least 16 stereo tracks of audio from you sequencer and still playback a very large number of samples in Gigasampler in realtime.
It is good value for money and takes 5 minutes to install, and I couldn\'t recommend it more.
Hope this info has helped someone who is thinking about a new scsi drive.
(p.s. If you are wondering, I am not an IBM employee!. I already had a 9LZX drive, but recently needed another, and decided to try out the DNES model, it\'s little brother. I am very impressed at it\'s performance in intensive audio situations. The performance/price ratio is very good if you are in a SCSI environment.)
Regards
Bob
A) If you want silly performance and price is no object, get the IBM Ultrastar LZX 4mb buffer U2W 68-pin drive. Either the 9.1 or the 18 are stunning drives and very very good for audio.
B) If you are looking for exceptional audio performance but are on more of a budget, you should look at the IBM Ultrastar DNES-309170 (9 gig model) or 318350 (18 gig model). This is a U2W drive, but they are backward compatible, so if you have a UW card like the 2940UW it will work with the U2W drive. Then at a later date if you upgrade your scsi to U2W you will get even better performance.
The performance of this drive is not far behind the LZX model, but at almost half the price.
This drive is a 2mb buffer U2W drive, with a 7200 rotation speed and an average seek time of 7ms. It is also very quiet. To put it into audio performance figures, in Logic Audio for example, playback 8 stereo tracks of audio, and the system performance meter simply does not light up. Much the same goes for Cubase VST. If you use Gigasampler, you will find that even on a machine as slow as a 333, you can play at least 16 stereo tracks of audio from you sequencer and still playback a very large number of samples in Gigasampler in realtime.
It is good value for money and takes 5 minutes to install, and I couldn\'t recommend it more.
Hope this info has helped someone who is thinking about a new scsi drive.
(p.s. If you are wondering, I am not an IBM employee!. I already had a 9LZX drive, but recently needed another, and decided to try out the DNES model, it\'s little brother. I am very impressed at it\'s performance in intensive audio situations. The performance/price ratio is very good if you are in a SCSI environment.)
Regards
Bob