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Old 04-18-2012, 04:48 AM
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Default Re: Buy a mac now or later?

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Originally Posted by albee1952 View Post
Macs don't support recording to USB drives. They all have a firewire port so a good firewire drive will be needed(OWC are a good choice), OR you can swap the optical drive for a second internal drive if you're game(youtube.com has videos showing how).
Really? I've been recording to an external USB 2.0 7200rpm Seagate drive for over a year now and it's been fine. This is mainly because an MBP only has one FW port and I use this for my interface... so to avoid daisy-chaining I use a USB drive.
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