#External hard drive pro tools mac portable#
#External hard drive pro tools mac mac#

What type of connection are you using between the computer and drive? If it's an ssd and you have the space I'd put all the sample libraries on it. It would probably be easier if the sound libraries/plugins were all on the same drive.Дon't know what the specs are on that LaCie drive but make sure that the drive speed is 7200 rpm if it's a spinner.

#External hard drive pro tools mac mac#

Kind of a weird setup I'm sure but I couldn't fit Native instruments on my Mac and so I needed to do that. So, because I've done it this way I figure I need a drive hooked up to my computer for Native instruments (It was too big to put on my computer directly) and the SSD one for recording. So sometimes it will be using my computer and other times not for the most part it will be.

#External hard drive pro tools mac portable#

I actually have some of my sound libraries (well native instruments mainly) on a standard portable drive (Porsche design Lacie drive) and the rest on my computer, it's probably a weird setup but I needed to start saving space so I brought a portable drive. The drive you linked would be perfectly fine as your session drive. At a minimum, I would suggest a separate drive for your sessions. Mind you, this all depends on how big your sessions are, how many audio tracks and how many sample based instruments you use. Now mind you that newer computers are pretty powerful and SSD drives are a lot faster than older mechanical drives, so you can get away with a lot more these days as far a running things from a single drive.

In this configuration, the drive only has to serve up any one of these things at a time, which removes the bottleneck and improves system performance. One for the OS and Pro Tools itself, one for your session (audio) files and one for your sample libraries. And this is where your system starts to slow down waiting for all that info to be read/written to the hard drive.ДЄ simple solution to this problem is to separate this data onto separate disks. That's a lot of data all at one time, so at some point, one or more of those things is put in a line and has to wait before it can be processed. If everything is running off of the same drive, then the OS is accessing information from it, your sample libraries are accessing information from it and your audio files are being read/written to/from it. Basically a hard drive can only read and write so much data at any given time.