 Ram Upgrade Or External Hard Drive? |
 Thu 17 Sep 2009, 15:24
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Hey all,
I'm running Pro Tools 8 and Propellerheads Reason 4 on a 2.4 gHz macbook with 2 GB of RAM. The other day I had about 10 tracks going (including Reason rewired) with about 18 plugins. The cursor began to move slowly and there was some harsh distortion as well. I haven't been using a FW external drive, just the 5400 rpm internal drive (I know this is kind of a cardinal sin, but I never ran into many issues before). Anyhow, something needs to be upgraded. I'm just wondering which would be more helpful - a bump to 4 GB, or a 7200 rpm external firewire drive? Any help with this would be much appreciated. Thanks. |
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Fri 18 Sep 2009, 18:40
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The RAM will give a break to the OS and the computer.
The drive will care of the crackling. <= priority in your case -------------------- Our Classifeds • Nos petites annonces • Terms Of Service / Conditions d'Utilisation • Forum Rules / Règles des Forums • MacMusic.Org & SETI@Home
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j_grim14 Ram Upgrade Or External Hard Drive? Thu 17 Sep 2009, 15:24
houstonmusic search your feelings... you know you've got t... Fri 18 Sep 2009, 16:43
j_grim14 Thanks for the feedback. Yeah I was pretty sure I ... Mon 21 Sep 2009, 14:52 SadPandas QUOTE (j_grim14 @ Mon 21 Sep 2009, 14:52)... Mon 31 May 2010, 07:05 |
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