External HDD for audio samples

[Andrew Tarpinian]

I guess had the old wives tale stuck in my head that USB uses extra  
cpu cycles where firewire does not. Maybe it used to be like that?

Also I was just thinking that it might be better to leave USB to deal  
with all the crap (controllers etc..) I have on the USB bus, and just  
plug a drive into the express slot.  I have always been a bit confused  
- if you say plug a firewire card into an expansion slot (like express  
card) does it create another bus, or is it still feeding off the main  
system one?

Most of my external drives now are USB but for this case with lots of  
audio streaming over the connection I wondered if there was a more  
optimal solution.

On Feb 17, 2010, at 8:01 PM, Joost Schuttelaar wrote:

> Also, better to not bother your audio bus with too much other  
> stuff... although that too should work.
>
> These problems really seem to have been solved back in 2005 :)
>
> -- 
>
> Joost Schuttelaar
> The Hague, NL
>
> On Feb 18, 2010, at 1:57 , Tony Scharf wrote:
>
>> I concurr with using USB2.0.  They can handle more than you think.
>> The bottleneck is usually the drive and not the port.
>>
>> Tony
>>
>> On 2/17/10, Matt Picone <matman at mysticworks.com> wrote:
>>> USB 2 here with no problems.
>>>
>>> -m@
>>>
>>> On 2/17/2010 6:29 PM, Andrew Tarpinian wrote:
>>>> I'm getting a external solely for storing audio libraries for plug-
>>>> ins, ie: east west orchestra stuff , machine, NI, etc... My  
>>>> machine is
>>>> a laptop, it has 1 firewire 800 port, USBports, and an Express  
>>>> card/34
>>>> slot. My audio interface is going into the firewire so I could  
>>>> daisy
>>>> chain off the interface but don't think that is optimal. I could  
>>>> get a
>>>> eSATA or Firewire 800 Express card. Or just do USB. What interface
>>>> makes audio the happiest?
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