Mac n chips

Posted on Mar 03, 2010 09:36 pm
Dematrix
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Member Since: Nov 27, 2007

Ive asked this before and was told i cant really upgrade my motherboard on my iMAC.

what i wanted to know is, will getting an external HD make it easier on my compy as far a recording and using drum proggies, pod farm etc goes?

I dont use my compy for anything else other than recording and i still have 110 gig left of a 250g hard drive.

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Hue
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Mar 04, 2010 10:39 am

If you use the external-HD to backup your files, and keep the HD on the compy as clean as you can(,so there's no search-lag) I assume, would make things easier on the compy. We started running things this way after recording 190+gigs of music into a 250gig HD(in 6-months), and problems arose in the form of a crackling/distortion/latency while recording. Took me a while to figure out what the issue was, but after adopting this practice of keeping the DAW as lean, and clean as I can, we haven't had a lick of trouble. I just back things up when we approach the half-way point of filling the HD. : )

Dematrix
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Since: Nov 27, 2007

Mar 04, 2010 06:47 pm

cool, thanks Hue, will grab me an external-HD

Strangedogs
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Since: Feb 07, 2009

Mar 04, 2010 06:54 pm

I have 4 external FW drives at present (1 is a DVD Burner in a FW enclosure) - I buy enclosures when I find them on sale ($29.00, etc.) and Hard Drives too on sale - I also just bought a 1-Terrabyte External USB 2 drive but it's just for storage... The FW drives can also be "daisy-chained" - also they're great for emergency boot drives (1 is a mirrored image of my main drive) if I need to repair my internal.