Drive speed.

[L-Dogg]

Hi all.

Since moving to my laptop and using a dedicated external drive…….I’ve been getting error messages with ridiculously low track counts and maybe one or two plugins. This means I have to go to the 1024 H/W buffer size with the result of crappy latency while tracking. I’d like to be at 128 or lower but no go.

Even at 1024 I quickly get error messages. Look at this particularly bad instance…..2 stereo tracks no plugs. Pathetic!


I actually currently have a session I imported which has 17 stereo audio tracks, a stereo master and two aux's with no plug in's on them. It's hit and miss whether I make it through.

Then I remembered........that in the past PT always was recommended to be used with 7200rpm drives...... which I made sure all my Mac Pro internal SATA drives were. I’m pretty sure my external Western Digital EZstore or whatever, that I'm using with my MBPR, is a 5400rpm drive. I cannot find a spec for this.

Could this cause issues? Or is it all about transfer rates and are the newer drives fast enough even if only 5400rpm?

What external drives are doing well with Pro Tools?

Thanks.