160gb or larger, what with the ability to shrink the realtracks now it could be even smaller, but I like to maintain headroom both for future upgrades and the fact that a drive with freespace on it tends to run better longer than one stuffed to the gills. These days I'd go with 16mb cache, minimum, although I have indeed run BiaB from 8mb cache USB drive and that's about all there is to it. RPM isn't as important as it used to be, if the drive is 5400 or better, it will run BiaB, with faster speeds being more desirable, of course, but certainly not mandatory.

BiaB doesn't stream from the hard drive, rather it loads a song into system memory, so the hard drive issue is not the same as it would be for use with many DAW recording programs or the like.

So pick one that is affordable and of a brand that you happen to know to be reliable from experience or internet reviews and go for it.

Just don't buy the extreme lower-priced offerings, that's likely to be trouble. The same can be said for the extreme higher-priced stuff as well, while nice, such is not really a necessity to run BiaB at all.


--Mac

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