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Originally Posted by huzzam
Just curious: you have that nice 512gb ssd internal, why do you want another system drive?
And: in my experience, SSDs (especially the screaming internal PCI-connected ones in new Macbooks) rewrite the rules about not sharing system boot drive with e.g. sample libraries. The issue for spinning disks is seek time, and the risk that some OS disk access will move the read head away from the sample you're trying to read. This is not an issue for SSDs at all, as there's no head.
In your position I'd run:
* USB 1 ilok
* USB 2 Duet
* thunderbolt ~ single drive (ssd preferred, but 7200rpm would be ok) for sessions.
you could also get the thunderbolt -> firewire adapter and use firewire 800 drives for sessions, which have a proven record of reliability & are cheaper than TB, and which can daisy chain very well in case you need to expand.
the lacie dual enclosure looks reasonable if you really feel the need to have the samples off the boot drive.
enjoy!
~peter
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It's not only seek time that is the issue; you still have only one in and out point for data that would have to be shared with the system and sample data. It's a fool's errand to run the system and samples and recording off one drive.