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Originally Posted by Pianoman1092
What do you mean by an external audio disk?
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Try using an external drive for your audio/session work. 7,200 RPM or faster or a good SSD, ideally a USB 3 drive on your laptop.
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I have a question though -- I have an external HDD that I'm not really using. Could I potentially install Windows 7 on that HDD and just run Pro Tools off of there? Haven't tried anything like that yet, but that might be a nice compromise for me.
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Yes, and that is exactly what I would do. But what spec drive is it? You can get pretty great performance with something like this one on USB 3 on your laptop...
http://www.amazon.com/Samsung-Portab.../dp/B00RWXVMRS. Really slow old HDD are a PITA even just for for a boot/system drive. With a fast USB3 SSD you should be able running a small test session on the external boot/system drive.
And then you can clone that to your internal SSD once/if it work OK.
Your laptop also likely takes a second infernal HDD (the second in place of the optical drive). It may make sense to look at that as well, to run two internal SSDs in future.