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Old 09-19-2019, 12:11 PM
Darryl Ramm Darryl Ramm is offline
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Default Re: 2018 Mac Mini Ditch Pro Tools Plan

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Originally Posted by JFreak View Post
True that, but what you need is one buss for your interfaces, another buss for your storage, and third buss for your displays.
Yes it's a compromise. For many folks who that long ago were running all on HDD some of this may not matter too much, for others, wanting maximum performance it might.

I went off into the weeds of Thunderbolt bandwidth in a recent thread on Thunderbolt 2, but applies to Thunderbolt 32, just with larger bandwidth numbers. If that helps others: http://duc.avid.com/showpost.php?p=2538513&postcount=9

I would hope displays do not cause problems when sharing a Thunderbolt bus with an audio interface.

And the exact numbers here are usually poorly explained/measured. Here is one of the better Thunderbolt display vs. data discussions (and see his referenced sources as well), (I just found this link again was looking for it before): https://macperformanceguide.com/blog...bandwidth.html

The irony is the Mac Pro classic Cheesegrater now has some decent internal PCIe NVMe SSD options.... even if it may not be able to run Catalina (we'll see if that gets hacked).
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