Is My Book: USB HD fast enough to...

[Walter]

Originally Posted by aplnub

Dave, I have two My Book drives I use on my Intel iMac to back up. Yes, they are not FW 800 like I would prefer but for the money, they seem to do fine. I have had no complaints using the drives.

Interesting:

Can you boot from those my book drives ?

What is the rpm of those drives ?

Did you reformat those drives from PC format to Mac format?

and,

can you record to them in real time ** ?

** I operate a audio recording studio and I need to record directly to the hard drive rather then recording to the internal drive and then copy the project to an external drive. We burn our back ups.


If you are you using those drives strictly for storage of data then for sure they are good enough as USB drives.

The "my book" ( western digital dirve ) I tested was 7200 rpm butthe usb data transfer was too slow and ended up with audio files that would stutter in recording/playback. Cool/retro audio effect but not when you are recording with a client/singer standing there stomping there foot and rolling their eyes in sheer disgust.