Western Digital
used to be one of the most reliable drives around. These days they are garbage. I recently had a 10TB G-Tech thunderbolt archival drive die within 15 minutes of opening the box and using it. I opened up the casing, and inside was a WD. It was stone dead. I'd had it unopened for several months so I couldn't return it . . . big mistake. I will always test a drive purchase from now on, even if I don't need it straight away.
I replaced the mechanism with a server-level Seagate and it's been perfect ever since, so the actual housing was just fine. I had no idea G-Tech had been bought by WD and were pulling this crap. No more G-Tech purchases from me now.
As Sardi said:
Quote:
Originally Posted by Sardi
USB3 case, Samsung EVO, done.
Throw that other drive in the bin.
|
Yes, get yourself a Samsung SSD / USB3 case for fast loading, and enable Pro Tools Disk Cache (loads all session files into RAM) for immediate response times. For such tiny sessions you could even just allocate 4GB and you'll be fine.
https://ask.audio/articles/pro-tools...-cache-feature