[microsound] noisy hard drive on mac

[i8u]

forgive my lack of knowledge here,


if  i understand all that has been said,
does it mean i could  set up another os on the external
drive which would then be solely dedicated to music and boot up
in this drive to work on music ?

which i believe may make things quieter,

or, if i run the software from the laptop
and access my files from the drive,
do i still have the same noise problem?

and given than either way i go, it seems
an external drive will solve my problem,
any feedback on drives, which ones are quieter than others
and also, which ones "travel" better.

thanks again

i8u

>> this will strictly be to ensure i can program sounds and work
>> without hearing the actuator arm move across the platter.
>
> exactly the reason why i also work on external drives. just the programms
> and system are on the internal harddrive. all the streaming etc. is coming
> from the external drive which is stuffed somewhere away from the working
> place.
>
> this is probably the best solution for your problem.
> good luck, ralph.
>
>> 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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