So
what’s the big stink about these drives?
PPA
did not set out to be a drive company. We sell professional
audio, we don't manufacture it….…. Umm, at least we didn't
mean to. It started a couple of short years ago when our
forward thinking founders realized that, emerging from the
primordial, mass storage, ooze were the first real glimmerings
of what might be the digital audio Holy Grail, Firewire.
Unable to find a manufacturer that made a reliable and fast,
yet inexpensive form of this new technology, they begin
a quest of their own. Striking forth with only one mantra
upon their lips "FAST, RELIABLE, INEXPENSIVE, QUIET" they
doggedly experimented with countless chipsets, enclosures
and drives. Never losing sight of this goal, and pausing
only long enough to shorten their mantra to F.R.I.Q., they
amassed mountains of silicone, plastic and metal, in a tech-botched
shrine to mass storage mediocrity.
As the pile grew, so did their knowledge and understanding.
One by one the pieces of technology begin to meld together
in an almost gestalt (look it up) manor. The zenith of inspiration
and dedication came late one night with the proclamation
from the back room "We FRIQin Did It!" The rag tag group
of audio sales guys had succeeded in perfecting the first
really dandy Firewire drives for audio/video applications.
Final recipe for the FRIQin amazing drive consisted of ;
A fairly common, convection cooled (fan less) enclosure,
for very low noise. An uncommonly fast version of the Oxford
911 chipset, for blazing data transfer rates. Fast hard
drives, with a proven track record in the studio. Seagate
is used almost exclusively*. Drive setup specifically tailored
for audio/video, and your system.
