 Hard Drive Upgrade For My Mini Mac, Internal or external hard drive for my mini mac |
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 Tue 23 Jan 2007, 22:27
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Hello
Can you help. I bought a Mini Mac 1.42GHZ (not Intel) to run Ableton Live.
All was fine, until recently I began running 6 tracks simultaneously and I started getting sound drop outs.
The 'D' in the top right hand corner flashes to show that the mac's pathetic 4200rpm hard drive can't keep up. (apple don't seem to advertise there hard drive speeds in their specs)
Do I ...
a) replace the internal with a 7200rpm drive. And if so, any suggestions or what make and model. Will I get significant speed/ track leaps, avoiding drop outs.
b) Use an external Firewire drive and if so how do I set this up. Do I...
put the application (Live) and the project file on the internal hard drive and
put the samples on the external.
or
does the project file also go on the external drive along with the samples.
Many thanks for any help or assistance you can help me with.
Fatsuma
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Fri 26 Jan 2007, 02:55
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Moderator In Chief (MIC)
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The drop out is usually AFAIK a little bit higher in tracks, but it's a 4200 rpm drive, and you have only 512 MB of RAM, maxing out will help a little too.
Firewire is better than USB 2 (even if USB 2 is better on paper) as Firewire handles file streaming and time constraints way better. Note, USB 2 will work, in case you can't find a FW drive. The difference will show more with 30+tracks, at the same tie, which won't be the case here anyway.
For the actual number of tracks, I don't know, it was 8 on the internal drive in 2002 with a very unoptimized app… that was a long time ago…
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