US Recording features studio grade precision Avastor HDX and SDX external hard drives for the best "bang for the buck" out there. Why? They're the best drives you can get. Avastor drives feature internal or external 40 watt power supplies, Oxford chipsets, plus high quality construction and reliability PLUS they all have a three year warranty. Avastor HDX Series drives are available in a very sturdy carrying/storage cases so you don't have to worry about hauling your drives from place to place to finish your project. They can even be padlocked. All our external drives include the latest company firmware updates. We have countless clients using the Avastor drives ranging from the home photo studio owner to many multi platinum Grammy award winners around the world. If you hear a song, there's a very good chance it was recorded on an Avastor Drive from US Recording.
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Here's a really helpful link to selecting drives from the Avastor website. Click here to go to Avastor's helpful information on drives This covers some things you may not know about concerning FireWire drives, especially power supplies. For instance, many drives are vastly underpowered. It's something many of the manufacturers don't want you to know about but it's very important. In fact one drive, for example, that's being sold as a "professional" external Firewire drive has a tiny 14 watt power supply, yet the internal drive itself requires 13 watts just to spin from the manufacturer's data sheets! That leaves one whole watt to work the armatures and power up all the other electronics which isn't going to happen very well. Professional? Hardly. For storing mp3 files at home? Maybe. By contrast Avastor's power supply is a beefy 40 watts.
"Avastor saved my butt. My computer crashed taking the memory out. Everything was on my internal drive. US Recording shipped me an HDX800 enclosure overnight air, I pulled the internal drive from the crashed computer, popped it into the Avastor enclosure, and I was able to grab my files via the USB onto my old spare computer. Thank you!" -PH, Los Angeles.
NOTE: Prices shown are current to the March 1, 2012 pricing which has been reduced a bit. Due to the massive and unprecedented flooding in Thailand where most internal drive mechanisms are manufactured, the prices have gone up significantly since spring 2011. We're hoping the prices will return to normal in time but the prices shown are current.