Aha, thanks so much for this. But, what about a usb hard drive? I found good companies here, any advices? And what about the good models?
Cheers: Ramy Moustafa If music be the food of love... play on. Mobile: 0020102221750 Personal email: ramy.moustaf...@gmail.com Msn and aim messengers: flutelo...@link.net Studio email: harmonystudio2...@gmail.com facebook profile: http://www.facebook.com/ Twitter: moustafa.r...@gmail.com youtube chanael: www.youtube.com/ramymoustafasaber -----Original Message----- From: ptaccess@googlegroups.com [mailto:ptaccess@googlegroups.com] On Behalf Of Nickus de Vos Sent: Thursday, December 13, 2012 9:06 PM To: Pro Tools Accessibility Subject: Re: Using 1 hd for recording Hi, As said the ideal way is to get a external drive for recording and to have your OS and pro tools installed on the internal drive. If getting external drives I would rather get thunderbolt or firewire than USB 3. If the budget does not allow for external drives for recording, you should be fine to record on the internal drive of the mac mini, sure you won't be able to record 32 tracks at once or whatever, but it will work. Just make sure you get a mac mini with a 7200 RPM drive rather than a 5400 RPM drive. If you can't get a 7200 RPM drive the 5400 might also work but it's highly recommended to get a 7200 RPM. Cameron Strife wrote: > Hi. That is not advisable. as I stated in a previous message, you > really need one system drive for the operating system and apps, and, a > second drive for audio. For best results, you really should have a > third drive for sample libraries and sound fonts etc. This will be > less taxing on each hard drive and will give you far better > performance. > > Trying to do everything from one drive will bottleneck and also lead > to a shorter life span for said drive. You will have problems. > > Depending on if your mac mini is new or used, you may have firewire > 400 or 800, USB 3.0, and/or thunderbolt. External drives are pretty > cheap these days. Just get a couple 500 gb 7200rpm drives to get > started with. Finally, don't go for USB 2.0. make sure they are USB > 3.0 if you can go that route with your mini. I use firewire drives a > lot and that is usually my first recommendation unless you can spring > for a thudnerbolt drive. > > Cameron. > > > > > > > On 12/8/12, Ramy Moustafa <moshtaqlealga...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > > HI all: > > > > I will buy a mac mini with 1 tb hard drive, > > Can I partition it, and use for recording? Or it will be bad? > > Thanks > > Cheers: > > Ramy Moustafa > > If music be the food of love... play on. > > Mobile: > > 0020102221750 > > Personal email: > > ramy.moustaf...@gmail.com > > Msn and aim messengers: > > flutelo...@link.net > > Studio email: > > harmonystudio2...@gmail.com > > facebook profile: > > http://www.facebook.com/ > > Twitter: > > moustafa.r...@gmail.com > > youtube chanael: > > www.youtube.com/ramymoustafasaber > > > >
