Best HD for sft instr. and audio recording

hello everyone,
having big problem with both Lacie and WD hard drives, i'd like to know what is safe and fast (FW800), for audio transfer. Even when the CPU load meter is low I get system overload messages and broken audio
I assume it is the hard drive that is not fast enough. Am i wrong?
with best regards.

Are Glyph drives using the Oxford 911/922 chips now?
I hope so.
I had them a few years back. A GT-308 rack.
The chipset they were using destroyed every drive in
the rack.
Really? (he asked, incredulous)
Wow, sorry to hear about that. I'm positive that Glyph's been using the 911 chips for at least the past 2 - 3 years if not longer. And prior to that I hadn't had any problem with their drives. Expensive, but worth it for the warranty and the tech support alone. Blew the bridge twice (doh!) in one of my older drives (a Project 30) and they replaced it both times with 24 hr turnaround.
Best,
-=iS=-

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