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Originally Posted by Darryl Ramm
or get two Apple FireWire adapters. and tun them off separate Thunderbolt busses.
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Thatīs always a good idea just from experience.
Get another Firewire-to-Thunderbolt-Adapter and connect your Saffire to one TB port (put a FW800-to-FW400 adapter cable into the
FW-to-TB-adapter), your Hitachi HDD to the 2nd one for backups.
From my personal experience decent quality FW800-to-FW400 adapter cables do work better with interfaces than those connector plugs.
http://www.amazon.com/Citi-Electroni...0+to+400+cable
Then connect your Session drive to one of your USB 3 ports, just make sure you have a new, good quality USB 3(!) cable (sometimes
people just use standard USB 2 cables for USB 3 drives which will not provide the desired increase in speed and stability finally).
This will speed up your session drive a lot (and solve the issue if itīs coming from a defective FW cable or FW port)!
As for speed a 7200rpm HDD via FW800 runs at about 60-80mb/s Write/Read at the max, the same 7200rpm HDD via Thunderbolt/USB 3
goes with about 160-170mb/s. Thatīs quite a difference in speed actually.
Btw no, you canīt mix USB 3 and Firewire within a chain.
Like Darryl already mentioned there might be other reasons for your errors. He has covered it all obviously.
If trouble shooting will not bring the desired success I would advice to (Iīm aware of that people donīt like this advice a lot) back up all
your stuff first and then do a complete clean install of your whole system. This often is the best solution finally.
As for your interface/converters if you can afford it in the future you might check out this little Thunderbolt audio interface as you said you
would not need many pres in the interface itself because you got your own decent pres.
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Clarett2Pre
https://us.focusrite.com/thunderbolt...rett-2pre?rd=1
This one got really good converters for the price and itīs Thunderbolt connected which would perfectly suit your 2015 iMac. Offering the
lowest latency on recording on the market and 8 ADAT inputs obviously.
If you would need 8 ADAT Outs as well itīs bigger brother may be worth checking out as well but this one has got 8 pres built in as well.
Very good ones indeed.
http://www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Clarett8Pre
https://us.focusrite.com/thunderbolt...s/clarett-8pre
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Originally Posted by Darryl Ramm
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The most affordable yet very fast, good quality option will be this one.
Put such a one
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-2-5-In...amsung+850+Evo
into such a one
http://www.amazon.com/Optimized-Inat...+3.0+enclosure
About 380-400mb/s Write/Read and definitely reliable enough for the work with PT12. Pretty nice for the price actually.
Again, if you cannot solve the issues by trouble shooting and reconnecting your external devices (check all your cables as well!), do yourself
a favor and perform a clean install of your system including setting up all the optimizations in your OSX before installing PT.
http://avid.force.com/pkb/articles/t...Optimize-10-11
This might help to solve it finally.
The best of success to you, VRW