Pro tools/Powerbooks/external Hard drives
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Posted on Jan 22, 2006 05:11 pm
jawnzap7
Member Since: Jan 22, 2006
First I just wanna say thanks to everybody on this site. I just joined but, have already learned a ton just from poking around. It seems as if everybody here is very patient, and informative...now that the requisite ***-kissing is over , lets get down to business...
So I just recieved my 15 inch Powerbook G4. It's a 1.67 Ghz model, with 2 Gb of Ram, and a 100 Gb 7200 rpm Hard Drive. I am currently awaiting my M Box2 (factory bundle) with Pro Tools, via UPS.
I have read the documentation on the digidesign website, and have read that it is strongly suggested to get an external/additional hard drive, instead of using the internal boot drive. But is it necessary? I got the larger internal drive hoping that it might be sufficient. If not I can live with that. I'll spend the money if I must.
So my next question is this...is pro tools compatible with usb 2.0 external Hard drives? Or can you ONLY use firewire/sata/whatever else they list drives. The usb 2.o's are cheaper for more storage than the firewire models. But I definently believe you get what you pay for.
And what about internal drives placed in shells? That seems to be the cheapest/most economical option, but I don't know nothing about that stuff. Is it hard to do?...what is my best strategy here?
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zekthedeadcowEat Spam before it eats YOU!!!Member
Since: May 11, 2002
Jan 22, 2006 05:29 pm It should be as long as the computer can see it then protools should be able to see it. However USB2 is sloweer than Firewire. It really shouldn't affect anything until you get about 40 tracks or so.
It's generally bad to record to the same harddrive that contains the OS. Thats because the recording with essentially be constally writiing to disk so it will be interrupted when the OS decides it neds to cache something in the swap partition.
Generally a harddrive can only read or write one thing at a time.
