What is the largest HD that I can use? AKAi Tech support is

I called these clowns in RI about the problem and I am a IT guy so I know my shit plus I have over 15 years with the MPC from 3000 to 2000 and now the 2500.

What is the largest HD that I can use?

120 not worth it to me I have a server which I house all of my sounds with backs ups done every 8 hours.

What is the largest drive I would like to tweak my drums on the fly not this transfering bull shit that takes for every

120gb is the largest I've read about that the MPC2500 will read all 120gb. Anything larger will only read up to 120gb.
If you really don't need all that space, cop an 80gb. Even that's alot of storage. But you'll be set for a while.
I recommend the Seagate Momentus 80gb model. I've been using that on my 1000 for the past 2.5 years without any problems.

akai was realy stupid not to put usb 2.0 in the mpc 2500... cause this usb 1 is slow as hell.

I am looking for at least 250GB

Certified Beatz wrote:I am looking for at least 250GB

just get a 120 lol cause thats the biggest i guess. 120 is more than enough i guess for me.... and think of how people in the past made hot stuff with not even anything close to that much space...

i got 180 gb, inside mpc

distortedtekno wrote:120gb is the largest I've read about that the MPC2500 will read all 120gb. Anything larger will only read up to 120gb.
If you really don't need all that space, cop an 80gb. Even that's alot of storage. But you'll be set for a while.
I recommend the Seagate Momentus 80gb model. I've been using that on my 1000 for the past 2.5 years without any problems.

serious. 80gb is nuts. 180 or 120? save your moneys

Alone I have 100 GB of just drum kits not including other sounds.

I wanted to put my entire library of drums on the MPC to save from all the loading.. I would like to preview before loading the sounds..

Not a big deal

tresperros wrote:i got 180 gb, inside mpc

what drive? does it show the whole 180? and what os u running?

I don't remember what drive, it's JJOS 4.99 though....

Will this hard drive work? It looks a little different from what I have seen but the specs seem to fit.

http://cgi.ebay.com/Seagate-Momentus-80 ... dZViewItem

120gb is insane...
Some of you are nuts.

And why would you have 100gb of just drums?

you dont create your own drums sounds and kits?

People create their own kits and sounds but damn 100 gigs of drums, lol, why dont you narrow it down to your favorite drums and free up some space, like theres no way youre using all those sounds consistently, damn it would take forever just to scroll through all your samples, thats why people are lookin at you like youre crazy, if anything make a few kits with 64 sounds each and spread them over programs on the mpc. Shouldnt take up more then a few gigs if you pick out the good drums from the bad ones, cus if you say you have 100gbs of drums I can almost garuntee that 90gigs of those drums probably suck lol I have the 80 gb hardrive, and have had thousands of drums stored on the hardrive and I never even got close to using all the space on the HD, I rather keep my folders organized and not have thousands of useless sounds, ill bet a lot of that 100gb of drums goes unused anyways. Just think logically, why did u buy an mpc??? To go to the HD screen and scroll through endless sounds??? Or did you buy an mpc to have a machine you can turn on, have some of your best drums loaded up and quickly bang out hard beats??? I think 80gb is more then enough for any machine. Nowadays people have computers and more secure places to store there large libraries of sounds, dont mean to sound like I know it all, just tryin to help you in your setup, make things easier and more organized for you, givin u an idea of how i look at sh+t, u should be fine with 80gb, trust me on that one

Certified Beatz wrote:you dont create your own drums sounds and kits?

There is no way possible that you made 100gb of your own drum sounds.

Thats fvckn insane dude... I have about 150gb of music in my external HD for my PC and thats a couple hundred albums. So your telling me that you have hours and hours of possible drum sounds? Thats fvckn out the norm dude.

And with all the questions you ask around here I cant see how you possibly managed to chop up and EQ that many drums...

Sorry but that sh1t just cant process through me...