Hi Krister, While that setup will technically work, your internal drive will become fairly fragmented over time. Again, it'll work but I'm not sure if it'll be adequate. If you're just doing a few tracks for fairly small projects, I suppose it'll suffice. One other thing to consider is that most internal drives are 5400 rpm unless they're desktop models. You really should be using 7200 or 10,000 rpm drives. Just a suggestion: why not partition your internal drive to dual boot and just use the external drive for backup/media?
cheers, Slau On Jan 3, 2013, at 1:27 PM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Hi and thanks for the tip. I'm more and more leaning towards the following > setup: External 1 TB drive as bootup with system and PT on it and my internal > drive as a media drive. Would that be advisable? Sorry for asking similar > sounding questions, i just wanna be sure i'm doing the right thing. Please > keep in mind, i'm a total newby when it comes to PT. IVe only used digital > portastudios in the past and also have attempted with various results to use > sonar. > > /Krister > > 3 jan 2013 kl. 19:03 skrev Slau Halatyn <[email protected]>: > >> Hi Krister, >> >> The makers of Pro Tools have always recommended using a separate drive for >> media and advise not using the boot-up drive. That doesn't mean Pro Tools >> won't work. It'll record fine for limited numbers of tracks with few >> plug-ins and relatively short lengths. The more you use the internal drive, >> the more it will become fragmented. While that isn't generally a problem >> under OS X, it all depends on the volume of work we're talking about. Put it >> this way, for small things, it's OK but not advisable. A studio would never >> record to the boot-up drive. It's asking for trouble. I would follow the >> manufacturer's recommendations and keep the boot-up drive and media drive >> separate. >> >> cheers, >> >> Slau >> >> On Jan 3, 2013, at 8:54 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: >> >>> Ahem, not sure i catch your drift there. How is your setup? My thought was >>> to dedicate an external drive for PT and the operating system, but do i >>> need another disk for the recordings? Can i not use the internal one for >>> that, or is there a problem with that? >>> /Krister >>> >>> 3 jan 2013 kl. 14:30 skrev Chris Norman <[email protected]>: >>> >>>> PT needs another drive to record onto? I'm using 1 HD here, and PT has >>>> ran fine for the last 2 years or so LOL. >>>> >>>> Cheers, >>>> >>>> On 03/01/2013, Krister Ekstrom <[email protected]> wrote: >>>>> Hi, Things are never easy are they?:-) Ok, next question then is how big a >>>>> partition do i need in order for ProTools to function correctly? I'll have >>>>> to try to reorganize things on my internal hard drive. Lucky i have a >>>>> readynas to play with. >>>>> /Krister >>>>> >>>>> 3 jan 2013 kl. 02:32 skrev TheOreoMonster <[email protected]>: >>>>> >>>>>> either the partitioning of the internal drive to have 2 versions of OSX >>>>>> or >>>>>> running it off an external drive. but remember pro tools will want >>>>>> another >>>>>> separate physical drive for recording thats not the drive with the OS on >>>>>> it. So if you go the External HD route for Lion, you will i believe still >>>>>> need a second external hd for recording drive. >>>>>> On Jan 2, 2013, at 6:14 AM, Krister Ekstrom <[email protected]> >>>>>> wrote: >>>>>> >>>>>>> Hi folks. >>>>>>> This week i'll probably get my protools with MBox bundle. My situation >>>>>>> will be a bit on the odd side, you see i'm running an IMac with Mountain >>>>>>> lion v10.8.2 and i don't want to downgrade, however something in PT is >>>>>>> broken under Mountain lion which means i can't use PT as far as i >>>>>>> understand. I had originally thought i would use a virtual machine with >>>>>>> an earlier OsX version in it, but that may not be the ideal solution for >>>>>>> this, so what is the best option for running Mountain lion for my >>>>>>> non-musical work and an earlier os for PT? A partition on my internal >>>>>>> hard drive?, a bootable external hard drive? Will the latter option be >>>>>>> as >>>>>>> good as an internal hard drive in terms of speed and so forth. I've got >>>>>>> an external WD MYbook Studio with 1 TB that i could format and make it a >>>>>>> disk for music, would that work? >>>>>>> What other options are there? >>>>>>> /Krister >>>>>> >>>>> >>>>> >>>> >>>> >>>> -- >>>> Take care, >>>> >>>> Chris Norman. >>>> >>>> <!-- [email protected] --> >>> >> >
