Hi Krister, The makers of Pro Tools have always recommended using a separate drive for media and advise not using the boot-up drive. That doesn't mean Pro Tools won't work. It'll record fine for limited numbers of tracks with few plug-ins and relatively short lengths. The more you use the internal drive, the more it will become fragmented. While that isn't generally a problem under OS X, it all depends on the volume of work we're talking about. Put it this way, for small things, it's OK but not advisable. A studio would never record to the boot-up drive. It's asking for trouble. I would follow the manufacturer's recommendations and keep the boot-up drive and media drive separate.
cheers, Slau On Jan 3, 2013, at 8:54 AM, Krister Ekstrom wrote: > Ahem, not sure i catch your drift there. How is your setup? My thought was to > dedicate an external drive for PT and the operating system, but do i need > another disk for the recordings? Can i not use the internal one for that, or > is there a problem with that? > /Krister > > 3 jan 2013 kl. 14:30 skrev Chris Norman <chris.norm...@googlemail.com>: > >> PT needs another drive to record onto? I'm using 1 HD here, and PT has >> ran fine for the last 2 years or so LOL. >> >> Cheers, >> >> On 03/01/2013, Krister Ekstrom <kris...@kristersplace.com> wrote: >>> Hi, Things are never easy are they?:-) Ok, next question then is how big a >>> partition do i need in order for ProTools to function correctly? I'll have >>> to try to reorganize things on my internal hard drive. Lucky i have a >>> readynas to play with. >>> /Krister >>> >>> 3 jan 2013 kl. 02:32 skrev TheOreoMonster <monkeypushe...@gmail.com>: >>> >>>> either the partitioning of the internal drive to have 2 versions of OSX or >>>> running it off an external drive. but remember pro tools will want another >>>> separate physical drive for recording thats not the drive with the OS on >>>> it. So if you go the External HD route for Lion, you will i believe still >>>> need a second external hd for recording drive. >>>> On Jan 2, 2013, at 6:14 AM, Krister Ekstrom <kris...@kristersplace.com> >>>> wrote: >>>> >>>>> Hi folks. >>>>> This week i'll probably get my protools with MBox bundle. My situation >>>>> will be a bit on the odd side, you see i'm running an IMac with Mountain >>>>> lion v10.8.2 and i don't want to downgrade, however something in PT is >>>>> broken under Mountain lion which means i can't use PT as far as i >>>>> understand. I had originally thought i would use a virtual machine with >>>>> an earlier OsX version in it, but that may not be the ideal solution for >>>>> this, so what is the best option for running Mountain lion for my >>>>> non-musical work and an earlier os for PT? A partition on my internal >>>>> hard drive?, a bootable external hard drive? Will the latter option be as >>>>> good as an internal hard drive in terms of speed and so forth. I've got >>>>> an external WD MYbook Studio with 1 TB that i could format and make it a >>>>> disk for music, would that work? >>>>> What other options are there? >>>>> /Krister >>>> >>> >>> >> >> >> -- >> Take care, >> >> Chris Norman. >> >> <!-- chris.norm...@googlemail.com --> >
