Re: New Mac Pro (7.1)
I'd go for 1GB. Definitely. I don't know if a separate drive is still recommended, but what I've done in my MacPro 2019 is that I've put in a OWC 4TB drive and have allocated 3GB for libraries (RAID) and 1GB for audio. It's the same drive, but AFAIK these drives actually contain 4x 1GB SSD's. The PCIe slot is more than capable of handling the data for the libraries and for audio. I ran a BlackMagic read/write test and on the 3GB I reach speeds of more than 5GB read/write and on the 1GB audio more than 2.5GB read/write.
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Main DAW: MacPRO 7.1, 16-Core Xeon 3.2GHz, 196 GB RAM, OSX 10.15.2, HDX3, PT 2019.12 Ultimate, 2x UAD-2 PCIe Octo's, Raven MTZ, 1x HD Omni, 2x HD I/O's, 1x MTRX and some more cool stuff...
Auxilary DAW: MacBook Pro with Retina Display (2012), 2.6GHz quad-core Intel Core i7, 16GB RAM, OSX 10.13.6, PT2019 Ultimate, 1x UAD Apollo Quad Audio Interface /w Thunderbolt Interface (v9.x)
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