can i shot external hd through guitar am--oh forget it

I'd recommend bouncing whatever stuff is currently on your internal HD to the external, and then recording to the spanking new free internal HD space.

if it's a 7200 drive it would work fine. i have done plenty of recordings on a laptop with a 5400 internal drive as well, and one (accidentally) on a 5400 external which worked too.

what DAW are you using

External. Firewire. 10K.

i'm going to be a dissenter and say that i have not experienced any reason to spend the extra cash on a 10K drive, though i never use more than 48 audio tracks

7.2K may be fine, but look, is it really the place to skimp by a few hundred $$$ when recording something as important as an album?

Hey, I'm not suggesting 15K, at least.

fair enough and good point on not skimping with something like multitrack masters

Wow, thanks guys--

So we can't really move too much of the stuff off, because we're using different bits of different songs. Hmmm... I just checked, and our mac os x library is like 50GB! WTF! Is that right? Or did my partner hide her private collection of game warez in there? But that's a good idea. I think we're also just resistant to the idea of not having everything on there we may ever need from a sound perspective.

We're using mostly Live to track, just because Logic Studio is slower than mud on our computer. We then use Logic to mix. Is that a bad idea?

And as far as the 10k drive, or even 7.2k. Should I get a firewire drive then? I can't seem to find a 10,000rpm external firewire drive on MacMall, having searched for Firewire800 and a couple of other combo's.

actually you make a good point there, i don't know if there are any firewire 10k drives - most of the ones i've seen are esata..

OK, some of my bluster was drunken dorky blustering so er I can't even find a pre-enclosed 10K RPM firewire disk from a half-reputable vendor and this means that the LaCie disks I just used for recording the tracks that I will release one day with my band but which aren't enough to fill up an album and my guitarist dinna wanna release less than an album so oh well and the conclusion is just ignore my advice (or else go super nerdy and buy enclosure & disk separately).

Whatevs you do don't go 5400 rpm 'cause this will definitely be a nightmare.

Man, that run-on sentence was sub-par for even a run-on sentence.