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Old 05-06-2016, 08:32 AM
Darryl Ramm Darryl Ramm is offline
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Default Re: Hard drive questions

What exact model iMac do you have today? With exactly what peripherals connected to it?

The last thing to look at is a old external FireWire HDD, they belong in museums or landfills.

The best options may be a USB3 or Thunderbolt connected SSD. Lots of options there from simple USB SSDs like the Samsubg T3 up to external Thubderbolt docks with SATA or even PCIe slot or PCIe M.2 SSDs installed in them, or pre-built Thubderbolt Little Big Disk2 drives from LaCie with PCIe M.2 (if you wanted extreme performance).

The more info you can provide about your setup, including all the drives you are using for boot/system, samples and audio, your sessions (#tracks and sample rate). The more folks here will be able to give you specific advice. You do not want to be running on a 5,400 rpm drive, but Pro Tools 12 with disk cache properly enabled will tend to help a lot with many disk performance issues. still I would only look at SSDs for session drives. HDD for audio/backup drives and if needed for large sample libraries and video where SSD cost may be problematic.
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