sabin333 Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Hi. Has anyone tried the Lacie eSata hub yet? I was thinking about picking it up because I'm sick of seeing the "Disc too slow or system overload error." And since I have a macbook pro with only one thunderbolt connection (which is being used by my extra monitor), and the firewire port is in use by my Echo Audiofire Pre8, I thought daisy-chaining a thunderbolt hard drive would be only choice (if I want to gain the advantage of having samples and audio files on separate drives). Check it out if you haven't seen it yet: http://www.lacie.com/products/product.htm?id=10574 Please post any findings! Cause Lord knows I'm sick of freezing all of my tracks! Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 I'm sick of seeing the "Disc too slow or system overload error." You should first determine which one it is: disc too slow OR system overload. If you're maxing out your CPU, buying the fastest drive in the world won't help you. To determine this, when you get the alert, look at your CPU and HD meters in the transport bar, and see which one is reaching high? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabin333 Posted February 7, 2013 Author Share Posted February 7, 2013 I just checked and its a little hard to tell which one (CPU or HD) is the one thats is in the red at the time of the error. But both seem very high. More often then not, its the CPU that is in the red though. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Consider trying to ease up on the CPU and see if that gets rid of the alerts. If it does, then changing HDs won't help in your situation. You can ease up on CPU by getting rid of some of the most CPU -hungry plug-ins in your project being used at the time of the alert. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabin333 Posted February 7, 2013 Author Share Posted February 7, 2013 Is the freezing of tracks or bouncing of tracks a good way to get rid of the CPU load? If so, is bouncing in place more effective than freezing tracks? Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
David Nahmani Posted February 7, 2013 Share Posted February 7, 2013 Is the freezing of tracks or bouncing of tracks a good way to get rid of the CPU load? Yes but both those solutions also affect your HD performance, so not a good idea if you want to TEST to determine whether your current bottleneck is the HD or the CPU. If so, is bouncing in place more effective than freezing tracks? As long as you get rid of the plug-ins both methods are just as effective, but freezing will put 1.5x more strain on your HD. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Eriksimon Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 Also note that when freezing, the audio tracks generated will live in the project folder. So if HD overload is the problem, freezing tracks will probably make it worse. If CPU is the only problem, freezing tracks will improve/clear up things. (it would be great if the location of frozen tracks' audiofiles was a user preference. It makes sense to put freeze files on the disk with sample libraries...) Another useful strategy is to do an "oldskool" bounce down, which is combining several tracks into one: solo the appropriate tracks and hit bounce, and reimport the bounced file); then mute the original tracks AND regions AND bypass all their plugins and use the bounced down file instead. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mdee Posted February 8, 2013 Share Posted February 8, 2013 I have my eye on both the Matrox and the Belkin ThunderBolt hubs. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
sabin333 Posted February 9, 2013 Author Share Posted February 9, 2013 Thanks everyone. I'll continue to look into this and post when I get a better understanding of the situation. Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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