[microsound] noisy hard drive on mac

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i often run off an external firewire 400 5400rpm drive and ive had no issues
running 20 or so tracks with plugins and mastering.  so id think that a 7200
firewire 800 drive would prob work even better.  alot of people actually run
their sessions off of external drives so that the computers hard drive is
freed up and dedicated to running the software, while the audio files are
actually being read off of the external drive.  when i started doing this it
really made my whole system alot faster.

i guess the way i see it is, if your serious about making music you need to
have some kind of backup for your work.  so might as well make that drive
bootable.  then if this problem you're having gets serious, you can boot
from your backup and continue to work until you have the time to take your
computer to the apple store.

i wish id have done it this way but i was not a technically minded about
such things then.



On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 3:54 PM, i8u <muse at i8u.com> wrote:

> it does sound like a good alternative indeed,
>
> regarding bootable external drive,
>
> any latency issues related to this whether in the studio or in a live
> context?
>
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> > I put a 7200 seagate in mine and it's faster now.  I couldn't say by how
> > much though.  On both drives I could run like 50 tracks of audio with
> > plugins and mastering on the buss.  I would say instead of replacing the
> > drive, buy a large external firewire 800 drive and make it bootable.
>  This
> > way you have a backup drive, something you'll need anyway if you want
> > insurance on your music, you get to keep your apple care which you will
> > need
> > for something else at some point, and if your drive does crash you can
> > just
> > run your computer off your bootable external backup.  Trust me, this is
> > easy
> > to set up and probably your best route.
> >
> > check out this website for great deals on quality external drives / ram /
> > whatever you need for your mac
> >
> > http://www.macsales.com/
> >
> > Making a drive bootable can easily be done using the disks that came with
> > your mac.  Whole thing done and running in less than an hour...  and yes
> > the
> > 7200 internal will be louder.
> >
> > On Thu, Mar 12, 2009 at 2:14 PM, i8u <muse at i8u.com> wrote:
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> >> sure why not? something to remember it by!
> >>
> >> > You're going to record it for our collection of hard drive noises
> >> right?
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