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The problem with spinners isn't so much the platter speed (although that is part of the deal) but that there is only one read/write head to access data. 100 tracks add up to 12 MB/second.Ī modern spinning drive can read about 100 MB/second and even the cheapest SSD can read about 400 MB/s. A nice big single internal SSD is all I would want in a laptop (OK, there are no big SSDs on the market, but you get the point).Ģ4 Bit audio at 44.1KHz sample rate leads to a data rate of 132300 bytes/second per track to be read from the disk (44100*3 coz 24 bits=3 bytes). Plus, modern DAWs (even PT!) are pre-caching audio files to prevent over-excessive drive-accesses.Īnd I personally don't like to have drives and other stuff dangling off the sides of a laptop. Modern drives, especially SSDs, are so fast that you don't have to care where to put your files. That recommendation from Avid is like how old? Decades or what? What has been the average drive speed back then?
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I'm shopping for a Windows laptop and was wondering if I can store my sessions on the hard drive in Windows 12? And is it something AVID doesn't recommend? I know it's been an issue before that you want to store your session files on an external device.

When I'm done doing the backups I unmount the drives and power them down. I have two external drives (one for sessions and one for samples) and each of those has a backup drive and one of those backup drives (the samples one) also has my system drive clones. You don't have to go to the extremes of completely disconnecting the drive although you can. Too many people do that and that leaves it vulnerable to the same kinds of bad dies that would cripple your main drive. Of course it's also great for what Dave says.Īnother thing if you do get the large external drive for backup - don't have it powered up and online all the time. Unless the system drive is either an ssd or an extremely rugged spinner it's all too easy to for a couple of unintentional knocks or an oops & drop to kill it (had that happen a couple of years ago). This one is very important especially for a laptop.

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If you save an image when your new computer has all your PT and plugins installed and running greate for a month or two, then if something bad happens(like a virus, trojan, drive crash or some update or new plugin trashes your rig, restore to the image you saved and skip needing to do a full re-install of all your software and OS) A drive image is a complete "snapshot) of a hard drive(like your system drive). So I recommend you buy a big(like 4-5TB) external drive and use it for copies of all your sessions, AND a folder for storing "drive images".

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Beyond that, if the system drive is a fast SSD(Samsung 840/850 are excellent), then you can probably get away with storing sessions on the C: drive(even though its not recommended), but consider a few details:ġ-SSD's are fast, but usually not very large(capacity), so filling the system drive up with a lot of sessions is not a good idea.Ģ-recording to a separate drive gives best performance(and performance is not something we will ever have too much of)ģ-no matter what drive you record to don't let it get too full(best to leave 15-20% of free space).Ĥ-system backup is ALWAYS a good plan. Your laptop is fairly new, it probably has a few USB3 ports, which is plenty fast enough for an external drive with either a 7200 rpm spinner, or an SSD. *** eLicenser Control Center 6.Avid recommends a second(separate) hard drive for sessions, but it doesn't NEED to be external(many laptops can hold a second internal drive). **No AAX tests until official Pro Tools compatibility with Catalina Right-click and 'Open' the installer to start the installation
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macOS Catalina has been released in October 2019, replacing macOS Mojave (10.14). We’d like to update you on the development and certification process regarding macOS Catalina (10.15) for Steinberg products.
