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Originally posted by id10t
Ah... then you are going to have other problems... FAT32 and NTFS can't handle single files larger than 2 or 4gb.
Any kind of compression - even lossless - will take forever and a day to get done.
I'd lean towards a USB enclosure with a drive as big as you can get, and a cheap mac to use it with (new mac mini, or something used)
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If the engineer is any good you should not need to worry about the file size.
He is not going to record, or should not record, the entire session to one file. That makes editing/searching a nightmare. He is going to record clips and log them so you can make sense of them later.
Even still if you do the math, 16 bit at 44.000 is going to get you an hour of music per (depending on drives block allocation size) 700-800 mb's so 2 hours straight is still under 2 gb.
Just get a big external firewire drive and format FAT 32. Macs can read/write FAT but can only read NTFS.
You can generally find dual interface USB/Firewire drives in plus 200 GB capacity for $150.
Stay away from those Western Digital "Book" drives. I have had trouble with them as well as other people I know.