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On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 2:44 AM, mark francombe <markfrancombe@gmail.com> wrote: > did it last week. if you have a time machine backup of the old mac, > just plug it in to the new mac and turn it on... worked for me... like > a dream.. same as old mac now with added Lion!!!! > > Sent from my (advertisement removed) > > On 4 Oct 2011, at 01:13, Louie Angulo <louie.angulo@googlemail.com> > wrote: > >> 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 >> > > -- www.luis-angulo.com