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and by the way folks,would you recomend me do a fresh reinstall of everything in my new imac or would you use a program like carbon clone to save time and copy everything to my imac? bear in mind that the old one has OSX leopard and the new one i believe come with OSX lion has anybody done this? On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Louie Angulo <louie.angulo@googlemail.com> wrote: > i know Time capsule is not FW,though it has ethernet and USB instead > and now up to 3TB of space,i believe > so would you recomend it and would it be fast in combination with > logic to access all the installed Native libraries in it for example? > cheers > Luis > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:20 AM, richard sales <richard@glasswing.com> > wrote: >> Yea, all audio on a separate drive, all virtual instruments are >> SUPPOSED TO >> BE on yet another separate drive. Firewire works great for me! I've >> done >> some very high track count sessions without blip. >> I've heard the new USB is faster. Don't know how robust it is. >> >> And Drobo (an external modified raid) is THE BOMB for backup. I have >> 7TB in >> mine right now and will upgrade to 10 TB soon. They're very slow to >> set up, >> slow (as in days sometimes) when installing new drives, but once set up, >> they're great for backup (use Time Machine). Then I have a Newer >> Technologies Voyager for second backup. I take the old drives out of >> the >> Drobo when they get upgraded and use them in the Voyager for second >> backup. >> Voyager is just like a socket you plug different drives into as >> needed. In >> lieu of a Drobo, I'd at least get a Voyager and a bunch of 1 or 2 TB raw >> internal drives to plug into it when needed. >> Drobo is great because, if a drive fails, you just plug in a new one. >> No >> data lost. I use the cheap WD green Caviar drives. Slow but, again, >> great >> for safety. >> www.drobo.com >> Buy 'em at Egghead or wherever. >> One drawback: the more HDs you have hanging on Firewire (etc), the >> slower >> the startup. >> Every time I've done a partition, I've regretted it. I'm sure YMMV. >> Other World Computing makes great drives for recording. Guaranteed for >> three years or so. >> http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB >> LaCie is also good. I think they might cost more. >> I usually buy raw drives from Tiger Direct. Haven't shopped a whole >> lot, >> though. >> R >> richard sales >> www.glasswing.com >> www.hayleysales.com >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> >> On Oct 3, 2011, at 10:41 AM, Per Boysen wrote: >> >> Firewire can be daisy-chained. Thus no need for a hub. Avoid USB for >> audio if possible (USB data transmission capacity flutter with varying >> CPU load). >> >> It's more safe to use extra drives for your project recordings. Best >> is two drives, where you copy files to keep them identical. This >> serves two causes: you back up your work and you never have to suffer >> downtime to defrag the work dirves (given you reformat a drive before >> copying all work files to it). >> >> Greetings from Sweden >> >> Per Boysen >> www.boysen.se >> www.perboysen.com >> www.looproom.com internet music hub >> >> >> >> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Louie Angulo >> <louie.angulo@googlemail.com> wrote: >> >> Hello people, >> >> im going to be aupgrading from the dual core 21" imac to the 27" quad >> >> core for audio recording purposes. >> >> The thing i need to consider before buying is: >> >> would it be better to get it with the 2TB HD than the 1TB? >> >> would you then partition the 2TB in two and put all of your software >> >> in one and your recordings into the second partition? >> >> or would you just get a 1TB and get an external HD to store your files? >> >> which one would you recommend or is faster, firewire or USB? could you >> >> give me a link to professional reliable ones? >> >> the Imacs only have one FW800 port in the back where i already have my >> >> RME FW800 plugged in >> >> that means i would need a FW hub to plug the external HD,which one >> >> would you recomend that have combinations of USBs and FW? >> >> so far ive found this one : >> >> http://www.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=199941 >> >> thanx for your help! >> >> cheers >> >> Luis >> >> >> >> -- >> >> www.luis-angulo.com >> >> >> >> >> > > > > -- > www.luis-angulo.com > -- www.luis-angulo.com