Re: What external hard drives are being used?

2017-11-21 Thread TheOreoMonster
SSD’s load faster and sample libraries operate at their best wen they have quick access to read /load the data they need to be playing back in real time while you are playing the instrument. Recording is writing to the drive and your standard HDD is plenty fast these days to handle the writing

RE: What external hard drives are being used?

2017-11-21 Thread Andre Jarreau
Ok, so one TB external drive should do it. Is there a HDD brand or model I should look into? From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of TheOreoMonster Sent: Tuesday, November 21, 2017 10:17 PM To: ptaccess@googlegroups.com Subject: Re: What external

Re: What external hard drives are being used?

2017-11-21 Thread TheOreoMonster
You can use your Two TB ports any way you see fit. A second one is nice to have because not all devices have two thunderbolt ports on them. Forexample the Focusrite Clarett interfaces only have one Thunderbolt port on it so if you had a computer with one thunderbolt port, you couldn’t also

RE: What external hard drives are being used?

2017-11-21 Thread Andre Jarreau
Interesting question. I have two TB ports on my Mac. One for Audio interface and I thought the other for external drives. Is this a waste of an TB port? Secondly. Is it true it is best to have PT and all other associated recording software on one drive with a dedicated recording drive.