[microsound] noisy hard drive on mac

[i8u]

yes, i understand,

i do like your idea of running of an external drive.

it does solve 2 of my problems, noise and apple care.

i would not do this to backups as i have a good 3 way system.

this will strictly be to ensure i can program sounds and work
without hearing the actuator arm move across the platter.


thank you for your insight

i8u (france)


> 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?
>>
>>
>> > 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:
>> >
>> >> 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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