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No firewire but I wanna go external. Is a USB Hard Drive worth trying? (Windows 7)
I am getting some serious slow down/freeze up issues and after reading up on this site I realized a lot of it is coming from recording on my Laptop's hard drive
I know you guys said Firewire is the preferred external hard drive.. but I don't have that option. I just want to know if there is any point buying a USB 2.0 Hard drive or should I just stick with my onboard and try to find other ways to speed pro tools up? Here are my specs ProTools 8 M-Powered M-Audio Fast Track Ultra 8R HP CQ61-420US Notebook AMD Athlon II Dual-Core M320 @ 2.1 GHz 3 Gigs Ram Windows 7 Home Premium 64 Bit In your general troubleshooting guide I disabled "Desktop Composition" (Which was handy, I was kind of bugged that when I disabled it manually on my own, Protools would just restart it when I ran it :P thanks for the help) |
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Re: No firewire but I wanna go external. Is a USB Hard Drive worth trying? (Windows 7
USB drives are actually recommended for Windows 7, while FireWire drives are not.
A better option would be to get a second internal SATA drive. |
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Re: No firewire but I wanna go external. Is a USB Hard Drive worth trying? (Windows 7
Thanks man that helps me a lot :)
any specs on the drive that i should consider when buying? or would be ok to pick up a cheaper one |
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Re: No firewire but I wanna go external. Is a USB Hard Drive worth trying? (Windows 7
DigiTech, What issues can one expect to encounter when using firewire external hard drives and a laptop, since that is my setup at this time? Also, what usb slot card is supported by ProTools...
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Re: No firewire but I wanna go external. Is a USB Hard Drive worth trying? (Windows 7
No Firewire, but I NEED to go external. I'm quickly running out of HD space. I have a USB 7200 RPM 1.5 TB Glyph drive arriving Monday where my sample libraries are going have to go. I have Komplete 7 arriving as well. I have 85 GB free space on my system drive and I need 90 GB just for Komplete. The engines will go on the system drive, but I need to put my samples on the Glyph.
For M-Powered PT 8.0.4 cs2 will this cause any issues? Windows XP SP3. And due to a lot of stuff on the main USB bus, I've got an "I/O Future" High Speed PCI USB 2.0 host controller. 5 port. PU520 Basic sys info in signature.
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Re: No firewire but I wanna go external. Is a USB Hard Drive worth trying? (Windows 7
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I really don't recommend it. Generally speaking and brand name USB card will work. We don't test them specifically, but I haven't heard of any rampant problems with a particular brand. |
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Re: No firewire but I wanna go external. Is a USB Hard Drive worth trying? (Windows 7
I've been using Maxtor, works great.
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Re: No firewire but I wanna go external. Is a USB Hard Drive worth trying? (Windows 7
Thanks for the advice all...... I've had a couple session expierience the delay to recording after hitting the REC key, and wondered about maybe just inadvertantly clicking on something to cause that problem.. Now I know what was happening... Have gone USB for the external drives... Thanks again
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