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Originally Posted by psycho_monkey  20GB free is fine for an external HD. It's system drives that you need to keep a good percentage of space free (and even then, 20GB is fine). don't know why you think there's a need to keep so much free space. SSD platinum is about 13GB anyway. |
I think 'so much' space would be relative to the size of the external. I was under the impression that you need to leave a % free on any HD, even externals, depending on what kind of data your external is holding (running apps off of them that have temp file etc..) it becomes more important.
Also when having an external HD as your 'sample' drive, I was always under the impression that is was best not to clutter them with a ton of samples, and would be optimal to spread them over several drives rather than on huge one (especially since a lot of sample technology uses streaming for playback). And if you are loading a huge template calling on a ton of sample for playback at one time, it can really bog down performance (especially on externals).
I made an assumption and I probably should have elaborate a bit more.