Hard drive overloaded

[jrides]

2nd hard drive.
Move all the non production crap to the 2nd hard drive.

Simple

[PRPS]

I believe you can put the actual application (omnisphere for example) on your hd and then put all the sounds on an external hd to clear up space.

Someone please feel free to correct me if I'm wrong

[DirtyMan]

^^^ If your hd is indeed full those are your solutions. How big is you HD whats it's formatted size and how much is used?

[lemonsquash]

do yourself a favour and get an ssd

[Hobbs_Won]

How does an SSD help his issue?? His problem is storage....an SSD is actually worse for storage for 2 reasons..

1 - It's cost per gb is still way higher than HDD and they still have not caught up in raw capacity size as well

and

2 - it's failure rate make them pretty undependable as a storage medium....they are actually the worst storage medium.

If you are suggesting his getting an SSD for system drive...these things should be clarified..

I'd stay away from SSD honestly...I've been through about 7 of them over the last 3 years...seriously...7 dead SSD's.

just get a 250gb HDD for your system drive..You could go smaller but the savings become diminishing once you go smaller....might as well get the best bang for your buck...

Put your system and studio files all on that drive...use the other for everything else.

And make sure you get one for backup too!

[lemonsquash]

if he's changing his main drive anyway..
he'd do himself a favour by putting a 128-256 Gb SSD inside the mac
and get an hdd in a thunderbolt/usb3 external enclosure (an enclosure which you can open and change the drive is best if you wanna just upgrade it cheap) for storage.

thank me later

bye

[lemonsquash]

ps. never store any important files on the os drive... just put your apps/programs there.. like Hobbs said

[lemonsquash]

Originally Posted by Hobbs_Won

I'd stay away from SSD honestly...I've been through about 7 of them over the last 3 years...seriously...7 dead SSD's.

are you using mac or pc?
on my pc not a single ssd has died
i've experienced one dead drive on an old macbook
but i thought it was just a bad quality drive (cheapest kingston, one of the first ssd models)

[psycho_monkey]

Originally Posted by lemonsquash

if he's changing his main drive anyway..
he'd do himself a favour by putting a 128-256 Gb SSD inside the mac
and get an hdd in a thunderbolt/usb3 external enclosure (an enclosure which you can open and change the drive is best if you wanna just upgrade it cheap) for storage.

thank me later

bye

That's pretty small for a system drive...I'd have a new system drive of 1TB. If he's struggling for space as is, going down to that size isn't going to help!

Get an SSD to stream Omnisphere from (external drive) - good.

Replace system drive with smaller drive, even if it is SSD - bad.

[Hobbs_Won]

Originally Posted by lemonsquash

are you using mac or pc?
on my pc not a single ssd has died
i've experienced one dead drive on an old macbook
but i thought it was just a bad quality drive (cheapest kingston, one of the first ssd models)

PC... I've had 7 die

from cheap OCZ to Mushkins and Intels...

the first one I had I am sure I killed it because, 1 - I was running it on XP, which at the time I had no idea that you needed to align the partition. In addition, I was defragmenting the drive which is a huge no-no.

I just had an Intel mSATA die on me 2 weeks ago.

I'm just about done with them....

[lemonsquash]

Originally Posted by Hobbs_Won

PC... I've had 7 die

from cheap OCZ to Mushkins and Intels...

the first one I had I am sure I killed it because, 1 - I was running it on XP, which at the time I had no idea that you needed to align the partition. In addition, I was defragmenting the drive which is a huge no-no.

I just had an Intel mSATA die on me 2 weeks ago.

I'm just about done with them....

guess I've been lucky with my OCZ Vertex's
I have two of them running win 7, defragmenting weekly.
Has been working well for about 2 years.

I didn't know people need so huge system drives.. I'm good with the 110 Gb I have for programs and system files. And about 3 T storage on other drives. just IMO, YMMV

[DirtyMan]

Logic ableton maschine omnisphere trillian and komplete 8 = where did my 750 gigs go hahaha ...a 128-256 gig drive in a daw I couldnt do it

[Jeff Ling]

In the Macintosh world, it's usually recommended to keep 10% of your system drive empty as OSX needs room to operate properly. Clearing out my drive when it's nearly full always makes my Mac much happier.

[Tha Govna]

If you have it, buy another MacBook Pro.

One for production and one for everything else.

If you don't, then as has been suggested, you'll need additional drives.

Move as much non-production stuff as you can to the additional drive(s).

Move soft synths like Omnisphere to the additional drive(s) also and have the sounds streamed from that drive. The reason is you don't want your system drive streaming samples and running the OS at the same time.

Ideally, you want a drive for the OS, a drive where your audio is written, a drive for streaming samples, and a backup drive.

[Classicbeats101]

I actually use a 128 SSD as my os drive and a external 500gb usb drive in my macbook. The performance difference is amazing. Logic runs way smoother now without all the crashes I used to experience. In my own opinion to have your daw and os only SSD is the way to go now a days. That being said I do always make sure to back up all my important stuff on my external all the time.

[psycho_monkey]

Originally Posted by Classicbeats101

I actually use a 128 SSD as my os drive and a external 500gb usb drive in my macbook. The performance difference is amazing. Logic runs way smoother now without all the crashes I used to experience. In my own opinion to have your daw and os only SSD is the way to go now a days. That being said I do always make sure to back up all my important stuff on my external all the time.

Logic will certainly load quicker...but a lack of crashes isn't due to disk speed.

Plenty of people run DAWs without SSDs - just about all commercial studios for example! I agree if you DON'T need a large system drive, then it's a useful thing to have.

And yeah...back up your stuff guys, it's just not worth it not to!

[Tnevz]

Originally Posted by Jeff Ling

In the Macintosh world, it's usually recommended to keep 10% of your system drive empty as OSX needs room to operate properly. Clearing out my drive when it's nearly full always makes my Mac much happier.

This and Make sure you get a 7200rpm speed or higher... On the external I'd make sure it's 7200 and FireWire 800.

I personally don't fux with the SSD's yet. Too expensive for me.