lorper Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 Just curious if I should be recording and saving on my internal or making use of an external? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
ski Posted October 13, 2017 Share Posted October 13, 2017 If by "internal" you mean your system drive, then yes, save projects to an external drive for sure (or a secondary internal drive, if you computer has the space for it). The reason: you want to maintain at least 20% to 25% of free space on your system drive just to allow the operating system to work. Mac OS also uses free hard disk space as "virtual RAM" for itself and various apps. So the more stuff you save to your internal drive, the more you start to eat up that space. When you get below the 20% free space mark or so, your system will start to get sluggish. At 10% your system may barely work at all. Either way, you'll need to move files to an external just to get your computer back up to normal speed. For perspective, saving projects using all virtual instruments won't eat up hard drive space nearly as fast as projects in which you record audio. But whether it's photos, giant word files you accumulate as you write your biography, or logic projects recorded with lots of audio, at some point the amount of free drive space will decrease and you'll have to consider offloading files. My feeling is that it's better to save them to the external from the git-go and not wait until you run out of free space. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
rickenbacker360 Posted October 18, 2017 Share Posted October 18, 2017 My SSD system drive (500 GB) works great for system and projects. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Ploki Posted October 19, 2017 Share Posted October 19, 2017 active projects on internal, depending on what kind of external you have, your internal probably works faster. on newer mac books, you can't get an external drive as fast as the internal is unfortunately, and its apparent in logic (project loading, editing transients,..) I bought a larger external (2012 retina mbp) for that reason alone Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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