which hard drive for multi track??

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Please take this suggestion: The Sandisc Extreme 64G USB 3 flash drive is better than anything elde you can use! It will record over 16 hours of 18 tracks, reformats in a flash (!) and dowloads to computer very very quickly for me… No need for an external drive to risk droping or whatever. I bought two of them and use them alternately on gigs.
https://www.sandisk.com/products/usb/drives/extreme/
https://www.amazon.com/SanDisk-Extreme-Flash-Drive-SDCZ80-064G-G46/dp/B00DZPUOUI

I no longer use external hard drives at all.

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Add in a USB extension cable with a right angle connector (get one the right way) at the desk and it’s very low profile as well, so hard to knock out of place.

I got a USB3 extension cable to ensure decent USB2 performance…

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They need to test more drives many of these tested ones are not even for sale

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Jeez, half the price I paid just a couple of months ago… Only way to go!

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Does the memory stick have to be USB 3.0?

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No, but the SanDisk Extreme has been the most easy and problem-free one I have tried! It is sort of silly to even think about using anything else, it works so well! I don’t have USB3 on my Mac and stil it downloads more than twice as fast as any other drive I’ve used.

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Thanks! I suppose it is silly to try this one just to save $10.

Then again, $17 for 64GB of storage is pretty cheap even if it is used for another application.

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How much did the desk cost?
How much does a TB HDD cost?
Is reliable (and no extra power cable) recording worth a few tens of dollars?

It also makes getting the data off the stick far quicker (saturating USB2, and even faster on USB3) for production or distribution.

My Sandisk cost me ~£40, and the cable another ~£3, which is (significantly) cheaper than the flight case for the desk…

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Another vote for the Sandisk Extreme. I’ve been using for several months now. There’s no reason to use anything else, especially now that the price has dropped from $65 to $35. It’s also about 4X faster transferring to my laptop than the external hard disk I was using.