[sdiy] Should I repair my Fostex, or should I go HD recording?

[Scott Gravenhorst]

"Peter Forrest" <pforrest at vemia.co.uk> wrote:
>Hi Juergen!
>I think USB2.  I was pretty alarmed to have M-Audio emailing me to say that 
>I shouldn't ever hot-plug my Firewire 410, because doing so sometimes can 
>result in significant damage to the 410 or the host computer.
>As far as I know, USB2 doesn't suffer from this gross flaw.

As a computer professional, hot plugging is something to be wary of anyway,
regardless of any manufacturer's claim.  I would not make a purchase based on
such claims.  IMHO, hot plug is really only worthwhile under rather extreme
conditions, a profit generating server for example, even then, the whole idea
is chilling.

For musicians doing things in their personal studio, I just don't see hotplug
as an issue to worry about.  If the thing died (for as often as that
happens...), it's not making music anyway, so turn the machine off, plug a
new one in and start your track over.  Also, I see much conversation here
over the prices of things.  Certainly, if we are worried about the price of
an adapter card, I don't see buying a spare, just to store on a shelf, as a
thing most of us would do.

If it were me, I would ignore the hotplug claim and purchase the card that
supplies the features that are most important to you, speed, driver
stability, etc.

>Peter Forrest
>----- Original Message ----- 
>From: "JH." <jhaible at debitel.net>
>To: "Rude 66" <rude66 at xs4all.nl>; "Peter Grenader" 
><peter at buzzclick-music.com>; "john mahoney" <jmahoney at gate.net>; "diy" 
><synth-diy at dropmix.xs4all.nl>
>Sent: Sunday, December 26, 2004 8:09 PM
>Subject: Re: [sdiy] Should I repair my Fostex, or should I go HD recording?
>
>
>>
>> ----- > btw if there's a choise between usb and firewire for digital 
>> audio,
>>> definitely go for the last. only 1 or 2 boxes work at all for multiple
>> audio
>>> i/o with usb.. firewire has a much broader bandwidth and there are plenty
>> of
>>> new cards coming out with reasonable pricetags..
>>
>> AS I have the choice (from the computer side at least) between
>> USB2 (much faster than USB1), Firewire and PCI, which should
>> I prefer?
>>
>> (I thought that PCI card with converters in a breakout box would be
>> 1st choice - is this right?)
>>
>> JH.
>>
>> 
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