Seriously-read this first!!!!!

[sw rec]

Straight from the manufacturer, and people still ignore it....

IMPORTANT! You MUST use a secondary hard drive (not your main OS drive) for recording and playback of audio in Pro Tools. Recording or playback from the OS drive is known to be problematic and the cause of many different error types. If you are using your system drive and encountering errors, the first thing you should do is get a compatible drive. USB drives are not supported and are known to be problematic, so please do not use them with Pro Tools. If you're recording or playing back from a USB drive and are getting errors in Pro Tools, please switch to using a compatible external firewire drive or internal SATA/ATA/IDE drive and disconnect the USB drive.

Pro Tools supports recording and playback to a secondary drive that meets the following requirements:

7200 rpm or faster
9ms seek time or faster

Firewire drives must have the Oxford 911 (FW400 port), Oxford 912 (FW400 & FW800 ports) or Oxford 924 (FW800 ports) Bridge chip. USB drives are not supported and are known to be problematic.

[Shifted Music]

". . . but my usb stick has plenty of room on it. Its 16 gigs, why can't I record on that. It said on the box its FAST. Isn't Fast fast enough?"

Im joking. . .really.

I agree. It seems a lot of folks post about problems using KNOWN problematic things like Old versions of VI's or Plug Ins and these drive issues you mentioned.

I research and read whats recommended, not everyone does. It does get tedious pointing out info thats easy to find.

[bigdrum2]

Originally Posted by sw rec

Straight from the manufacturer, and people still ignore it....

IMPORTANT! You MUST use a secondary hard drive (not your main OS drive) for recording and playback of audio in Pro Tools. Recording or playback from the OS drive is known to be problematic and the cause of many different error types. If you are using your system drive and encountering errors, the first thing you should do is get a compatible drive. USB drives are not supported and are known to be problematic, so please do not use them with Pro Tools. If you're recording or playing back from a USB drive and are getting errors in Pro Tools, please switch to using a compatible external firewire drive or internal SATA/ATA/IDE drive and disconnect the USB drive.

Pro Tools supports recording and playback to a secondary drive that meets the following requirements:

7200 rpm or faster
9ms seek time or faster

Firewire drives must have the Oxford 911 (FW400 port), Oxford 912 (FW400 & FW800 ports) or Oxford 924 (FW800 ports) Bridge chip. USB drives are not supported and are known to be problematic.

Hehehe, that's funny, i record everyday on my internal HD without any problem or glitch........ go figure........:)

[basslik]

Originally Posted by bigdrum2

Hehehe, that's funny, i record everyday on my internal HD without any problem or glitch........ go figure........:)

I hate to see anyone lose at their hard work when they ignore the recommendations.

[Hotcrazyfruit]

Originally Posted by bigdrum2

Hehehe, that's funny, i record everyday on my internal HD without any problem or glitch........ go figure........:)

How big are your sessions?

Nick

[basslik]

Originally Posted by bigdrum2

Hehehe, that's funny, i record everyday on my internal HD without any problem or glitch........ go figure........:)

other than the obvious, your putting extra wear and tear on the internal drive since it has to work twice as hard retrieving data. Make sure you back up to something, laugh now, but it's no joke that you would lose all your hard work.

[bigdrum2]

Originally Posted by basslik

other than the obvious, your putting extra wear and tear on the internal drive since it has to work twice as hard retrieving date. Make sure you back up to something, laugh now, but it's no joke that you would lose all your hard work.

Don't worry i back up with time machine......

[bigdrum2]

Originally Posted by Hotcrazyfruit

How big are your sessions?

Nick

Around 40-45 tracks.

[bigdrum2]

Originally Posted by basslik

I hate to see anyone lose at their hard work when they ignore the recommendations.

90% of the trouble come from plugin that are outdate.

[bigdrum2]

Originally Posted by basslik

your putting extra wear and tear on the internal drive since it has to work twice as hard retrieving date. :

Not true. that's what a internal drive is made for. retrieving data.