Hi and thanks for the tip. I'm more and more leaning towards the following setup: External 1 TB drive as bootup with system and PT on it and my internal drive as a media drive. Would that be advisable? Sorry for asking similar sounding questions, i just wanna be sure i'm doing the right thing. Please keep in mind, i'm a total newby when it comes to PT. IVe only used digital portastudios in the past and also have attempted with various results to use sonar.
/Krister 3 jan 2013 kl. 19:03 skrev Slau Halatyn <slauhala...@gmail.com>: > 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 --> >> >