Michael --

I bought a Quantum Atlas III SCSI hard drive and Adaptec 2940 UW SCSI
card from Bason Computers. The total for both was about $500. The
drive works great for multitrack digital audio (Vegas didn't work too
well with my old 5400 RPM 10GB IDE IBM Deskstar). I have the 7200 RPM
9GB version of the Atlas III. The only thing I would change if I had
more to spend would be moving up to 10000 RPM and perhaps a larger
capacity, but mine works fine for my purposes. I have enough space to
do an album-length 16-track project without backing up. When I do run
out of space, I back up to an external SCSI DAT Drive (Archive
Python). I'm very happy with Quantum and the external casing provided
by Bason.

http://www.basoncomputers.com

Also, in the interest of preserving hard drive space (and reducing
the time it takes to wait for a DAT backup), I've become fond of
using lossless audio compression to shrink files before archiving. It
really works! I've created .shn files from .wav files and then re-
converted the .shn files to .wav, brought the original and the
extracted files into Vegas, reversed the phase of one file and played
them simultaneously on seperate tracks -- complete cancelleation with
no artifacts! The utility I use also generates checksums. Learn more
about it here:

http://home.att.net/~mkw/mkwact.html

Carl

Michael Chavez wrote:
>>My HD that I'm currently running is on its last MB.
>>
>>I need to a buy an External HD (SCSI) that will last me for
>>a while.
>>
>>I do not have extensive knowledge on HD's so I'm looking
>>for suggestions. Company, Size, Speed etc..
>>
>>All suggestions are greatly appreciated.