256GB Should be plenty sufficient for an internal drive. Avid recommends FW on OSX for use with PT, that being said i been using a USB 2 drive with no issues. Also i am most lit an audio guy and a rarely record more than 2 tracks at the same time. However i have mixed projects with 24+ tracks streaming back off said USB drive with no issues. As some will say, Your milage may vary when not using the recommended specs. If they can afford it a Thunderbolt drive will be as fast as any internal drive So thats also another option. On Jan 19, 2015, at 6:48 AM, Steve Sparrow <[email protected]> wrote:
> Hi guys a friend of mine is specking up a mac book pro for protools. he is > going for an i 7 processor with 16 gig of ram. > > a couple of small questions. i sujested to him to use an external drive, and > not to use the main hard drive on the mac for recording. So he is asking if a > 256 gig internal drive would be big enough if he was adding an external > drive. I would have thought it would be, but thought i’d ask anyway. > > the other question is what type of external drive should he be running. . Is > it better to for a u s b 3 external drive, or would thunderbolt be better. > or a firewire drive. > Steve > > -- > You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups > "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. > To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an > email to [email protected]. > For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout. -- You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Pro Tools Accessibility" group. To unsubscribe from this group and stop receiving emails from it, send an email to [email protected]. For more options, visit https://groups.google.com/d/optout.
