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Re: What size hard drive???
Thanks for everyone's feedback. This has helped me make an informed decision on my new sys.
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Re: What size hard drive???
The need for a separate audio file drive ended beginning with Pro Tools 11. If I were using a laptop, I would just use external drives for backups and archive files.
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Re: What size hard drive???
Please explain how that is so (unless you're specifically talking about PT11HD). PT11 has nothing to do with that; large internal ssd's are the driver here.
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Re: What size hard drive??
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What about employing a server?..... But then again..... I’m getting well away from my initial concept of what I want and that a lappy that can mostly just run a DAW in a home studio ( hell if I create such a freaking hit tune, I’d go to some professional studio or be made to hahaha) I can plug into a digital audio desk ie; the one I run my PA. If I can store as much libraries on externals then I’m hoping a 1t drive in my lappy will be enough space for the necessities.
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Re: What size hard drive??
Prior to PT 11, Pro Tools required us to use a separate audio drive from the system drive for best performance. From 11 on that was no longer required due to a change in how it worked with disks.
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Re: What size hard drive???
I have a mid 2015 rMBP, 2.6 GHz i7, 512 Gb flash drive & 16 Gb of RAM. I’m about to strip it down to just OSX, Pro Tools 2018 and Cubase Pro 9.5 for portable recording. Antelope is finally releasing a high-performance Thunderbolt driver for Windows so I’m moving back to my Win 7 PC with 4.4 GHz i7, 32 Gb of RAM, EVGA video card & 4K monitor. The rMBP will have High Sierra installed with a 120 Gb USB 3.0 external drive running Sierra for my Word, photos, email and social media.
It looks like a new MBP that supports 32 Gb of RAM is on the near horizon, but I ain’t going there. I also have several USB 3.0 external hard drive boxes with 7200 rpm SATA drives for samples & recording along with an OWC USB 3.0 case for my Blu-ray burner. I’ve been running all these external drives connected through Anker USB 3.0 hubs finding no bottlenecks whatsoever. YMMV!
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And will be priced to suit........ yikes!!!!! 32Gb of ram sounds amazing..... although unless youre into video editing with your music or recording a symphony orchestra do you really need 32Gb ram?
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Re: What size hard drive???
If you work a lot with samplers like Kontakt and EW Play 32gig of ram is a good thing to have. Also with more ram, and a PT version that supports it, you have can use the ram as a disk cache. I have 48 gig in my 2012 cheesegrater and quite often need that extra ram above 32 gig because I tend to load all my samples into ram when I use EW Play libraries (I don't have an ssd for my samples yet).
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Re: What size hard drive??
Please explain further or provide a link for what you say. No matter how one slices this loaf of bread you're still pulling bits & bytes through one pipe and if things are dense enough throughput is going to slow down.
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Re: What size hard drive???
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Not too concerned about the latter, although Im sure some will.... finally placing my order this week..... will be nice to use PT without it crashing like a pack a day smoker after a couple laps around the track.
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