djpeder Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 Hello there i have an iMac I7, the newest fastest one.. I have taken the Evan benchmark test and i can run around 75 tracks which is quite a lot more than my previous MAC (a G5 before intel).. However the Imac seems slower.. I get a lot of "disk to slow" messages and another problem is that when I press play I sometimes have to wait up to 5 seconds before playback commences.. And this is with the simplest of arrangements.. Anyone heard about this before???? I record and playback to a partition of the internal HD (1 TB plenty of free space) Samples for virtual instruments run of a firewire drive .. I use RME FIREFACE USB.. I run the latest LOGIC and SNOW LEOPARD.. I did not have any problems like that on my way older system .. Any help would be great .peder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Matt Mayfield Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 Is the audio project partition formatted for Mac OS Extended, and not FAT32? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpeder Posted December 10, 2010 Author Share Posted December 10, 2010 yes its formatted for MAC OS (i think not journaled) Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 Partitioning the system drive is a bad idea in my opinion. You're playing back and recording on the same drive, regardless if it's partitioned or not. It's not efficient. Get a firewire 800 hard drive and record to that. I would get rid of the partition and install everything on the system drive, especially if you have 1TB. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
thindave Posted December 10, 2010 Share Posted December 10, 2010 How fast in the drive? You should have at least a 7200rpm drive for audio, imo... Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpeder Posted December 11, 2010 Author Share Posted December 11, 2010 I'm not sure i understand as i have never had this problem before .. especially the one where logic has to wait several seconds before starting playback, this is not consistent though... so do you mean i should have the files that are being played back on one drive and then record to another??? this seems a little strange.. or do you mean that the projects/arrangements should be on another drive than the system drive???? .peder Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
MikeyC Posted December 11, 2010 Share Posted December 11, 2010 You should have Logic on one drive, and do recording to or stream samples from another. You can compare your harddrive to a record player with one head that reads and writes. The more stuff you are demanding it to do simultaneously, the more the head has to jump around all over the place, slowing down all the processes. Partitioning a drive doesn't change the fact that it's still only one read/write head doing the work. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpeder Posted December 11, 2010 Author Share Posted December 11, 2010 thanks for your replies everyone .. i will try this . Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jfalikman Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 How about 2 external fw800 hd's ? Internal for os/logic+audio content etc 1 for komplete 7,omnisphere,lass etc 1 for project/audio any serious benifits ? I'm asking because from what I understand the firewire 800 has a maximum transfer data rate of 80mbps not nearly as fast as Sata 300mbps Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
triplets Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 Depends on the machine you have. If you have a laptop with an express card, you can use eSata too. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Jfalikman Posted December 12, 2010 Share Posted December 12, 2010 iMac i7 with 8gb of ram rme fireface uc no esata Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
djpeder Posted December 14, 2010 Author Share Posted December 14, 2010 How about 2 external fw800 hd's ?Internal for os/logic+audio content etc 1 for komplete 7,omnisphere,lass etc 1 for project/audio any serious benifits ? I'm asking because from what I understand the firewire 800 has a maximum transfer data rate of 80mbps not nearly as fast as Sata 300mbps I'm also interested in this .. would it make sense to have an extra FW800 daisy chained for sample libraries or is it just as good running it from the same HD as your projects??? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Rev. Juda Sleaze Posted December 14, 2010 Share Posted December 14, 2010 Maybe this thread is relevent to you: http://www.logicprohelp.com/viewtopic.php?t=63736&highlight= I don't think you should be having problems, even running everything form the system drive. Is your energy saver system preferences putting your HDs to sleep? Are you running lots of other programmes at the same time? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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