jobast Posted September 1, 2009 Share Posted September 1, 2009 Hi all, I've just changed my 5400 hitachi internal drive for a Seagate Momentus (500go, 7200 rpm, ST9500420AS ). Since then, logic is getting mad. The projects that were working just fine before that uprgrade are now stopping every ten seconds, giving me the "system overlaoded or disk too slow" error message. When it happens, the meters don't show any cpu or disk overuse. My general settings are optimized (buffer size and so on) I have reinstalled the whole system (haven't used a clone). Any idea of what it could be? Bad compatibility between the drive and logic? Hardware Problem? Anyone else using this hd? Thanks for your help Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quantum Semantics Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 I'm having the same exact issue with that drive and haven't found a fix yet unfortunately. If i find anything I'll definitely PM you though. It's really annoying. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
DocBop Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 Did you do a PRAM reset after installing the drive so the Mac hardware knows there is something new? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jobast Posted September 3, 2009 Author Share Posted September 3, 2009 Did you do a PRAM reset after installing the drive so the Mac hardware knows there is something new? Thanks for your replies I did reset the PRAM. No change. In order to be sure it is not due to some installation problem, I've even reinstalled an old clone (the one that was working perfectly with my old Hitachi 5400 rpm)... I guess the problem is the hdd itself. Anyone knows a good hdd benchmark software for mac? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jobast Posted September 3, 2009 Author Share Posted September 3, 2009 I'm having the same exact issue with that drive and haven't found a fix yet unfortunately. If i find anything I'll definitely PM you though. It's really annoying. Did you upgrade to that drive? If yes, was it working good before? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
benulous Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 Hmm...i just upgraded to that same drive in my 2.2 Intel MBP...I haven't done anything intensive, yet though...so, whatever you guys find out, please keep it in the thread...just in case... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gteles Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 check apple for the firmware upgrade for 500GB HDD bug!! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quantum Semantics Posted September 3, 2009 Share Posted September 3, 2009 I'm having the same exact issue with that drive and haven't found a fix yet unfortunately. If i find anything I'll definitely PM you though. It's really annoying. Did you upgrade to that drive? If yes, was it working good before? Yes. I upgraded the 320 GB 5400 ROM drive that shipped with my MBP 15" with the Seagate. I never experienced the issue on the original drive in either Logic 8 or 9. I didn't have 9 on very long before upgrading the drive but in that time I never once had an issue and I used it extensively. I'm probably going to order the Hitachi 500GB 5400 RPM model as it is the same model that Apple uses in the new MBP and will likely be more reliable. I have a big project I'm working on and I don't time for these types of issues. I'll take the performance hit if it affords me some stability. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
timartingstall Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 I have a similar problem but I am using a seagate barracuda 7200. I havent upgraded though. It was working fine until I moved the song into automation it then started freezing at the same point in the song almost every play through. I tried loading a previously saved version of the song (before automation) but it does the same thing, it actually says audio engine too slow ! I deleted a lot of unused stuff and tried again but no difference, any ideas ? I dont know if this will help any of you guys but previously when using logic express I used to frequently get the same error message that you have posted error code plus disk too slow, it turned out that there were files being saved to different locations (somehow probably my error) and it couldnt handle it. Once I brought everything together and logic new where to go it worked fine. Sorry for my lack of technical language. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
gilded Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 Welcome to problems If you have Momentus 7200.4 drive with this problem please write in Apple and Seagate forums: http://discussions.apple.com/thread.jspa?threadID=2049659&start=1860&tstart=0 http://forums.seagate.com/stx/board/message?board.id=ata_drives&thread.id=14667 Thousands people have same problem... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sound609 Posted September 4, 2009 Share Posted September 4, 2009 I've got this drive, swapped it out myself into my MBP about 2 week ago. The most intensive thing I've done is run the Lily Allen and The Killers demo songs (from the system drive) and it's worked fine. I'm still on 10.5.8. Is this only being seen on 10.6? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Quantum Semantics Posted September 6, 2009 Share Posted September 6, 2009 I've got this drive, swapped it out myself into my MBP about 2 week ago. The most intensive thing I've done is run the Lily Allen and The Killers demo songs (from the system drive) and it's worked fine. I'm still on 10.5.8. Is this only being seen on 10.6?The problem existed in 10.5.8 for me as well as in 10.6. I've swapped my MBP's original drive back in until I can get this resolved or buy a Hitachi 500GB model. I can't get any work done. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jobast Posted September 7, 2009 Author Share Posted September 7, 2009 I've tried to install 10.5.7, 10.5.8, 10.6 on this drive without any success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jobast Posted September 7, 2009 Author Share Posted September 7, 2009 I've tried to install 10.5.7, 10.5.8, 10.6 on this drive without any success. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
jobast Posted October 19, 2009 Author Share Posted October 19, 2009 I finally bought an external esata drive. It works fine now. But I still can't understand why my segate 7200 rpm is slower than my ex hitachi 5400. Did anyone upgrade to this HD? having the same issue? How can I know if my HD has a hardware problem? I also get a lot of trouble with snow leopars, but i leave ths for another post... life is so complicated Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
oasi Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 Hi to all, I also plan to upgrade my older MBP, 2.2GHz, Model 3,1, Late 2007 with the Seagate 7200.4 500GB ! I´m very afraid what I´ve read in this thread! I have read about the problems in many forums. It seems to be that it is only incompatibel with the newer MBP´s? Can it be that the newest delivered Models from seagate (newer revision) don´t have this problems? Does only the Model with G-Force-Protection cause the problems? Is there any user who can report that he successfully uses the 7200.4 with Logic (Especially in the older MBP´s)? If the risk to upgrade to the seagate is to high the second choice in Performance and space seems to be the WD5000BEVT from Western Digital. But it has only 5400upm ! Will it be fast enough? Does someone use it in MPP with logic? best regards oasi Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Accu Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 I have this same problem with my Logic Pro 9.0.2 & Macbook 3.1 & Segate 500 GB , 7200 RPM model: ST9500420AS. I start think tha is the internal core problem in Logic not in the hardwear, becuse this problem occurs only in logic. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyal Posted October 20, 2009 Share Posted October 20, 2009 No bid deal. Repair Disk permissions, restart your machine holding CMD+OPT+P+R (let it chime 3 times) let go of the keys and you're good to go...assuming you're not actually trying to record to the same HD your OS runs on. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Accu Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 Thanks Seems thats working !!! But when I would like to record some live instruments I should use for record data an hdd thats not instaled OS ? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
skyshooter Posted October 21, 2009 Share Posted October 21, 2009 Been using the momentus internally in my MBP for about 3 months now no issues other than it got hot. I am running a fan program, not SMC Fan Control (which I wish it was) but one that runs automatically not so quiet, but doesn't affect my recording (yet). No issues I've seen from it other than way more room and slightly better speeds in disk related tasks. Knock on wood, I have had no problems running Logic 9.0.2 under OSX 10.6.1 but I don't really tax Logic yet either so I am not the best test subject. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tatem Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 I just did this same upgrade of the 500 gig seagate momentus 7200 on my macbook pro and was plagued with the -10010. So yesterday I spent all day looking through forums, resetting p ram, defragging ect. What ended up solving this problem for me was splitting up my drive and dropping the projects onto their own partition, I understand all the reasons why it shouldn't do anything but it did. Hope this helps. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
luckyal Posted October 28, 2009 Share Posted October 28, 2009 I understand all the reasons why it shouldn't do anything but it did. Hope this helps. Well, I'm sorry to break it to you, but your joy is going to be short lived. You may as well go out and get yourself a good FW drive today. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
tatem Posted October 29, 2009 Share Posted October 29, 2009 Already have two, thanks for the tip though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
avrinder Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 No bid deal. Repair Disk permissions, restart your machine holding CMD+OPT+P+R (let it chime 3 times) let go of the keys and you're good to go...assuming you're not actually trying to record to the same HD your OS runs on. so there's no way I can record 7-8 simultaneously with my internal hd? I have the last gen black macbook, with 4g ram. This happened to me today, recording my drummer. Very annoying to have it stop every 15 seconds. (I was using Profire 2626) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Accu Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 It's looks that bouncing track without any errors works only when it's done at external hd. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
slrxm94 Posted December 14, 2009 Share Posted December 14, 2009 two more things make sure all audio is wav and NOT mp3 as logic can now play mp3's directly in the page and converts on the fly but it takes loads of cpu (you can see file type in the audio bin) then the only other suggestion if you have tried some of the easier stuff above is to rebuild the spotlight index as this can get corrupted with files that have a created date set in the future, do a search of your hard drive you may be surprised I WAS !!!@ Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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