Forumites that record music, help me out.

[NewEyesOpen]

I have 2 external hard drives, both OWC mercury elite pros. I initially wanted to use one of them as a time machine and the other as my backup for music, media, and the songs i record/my song ideas. However, a friend of mine who is a bit more experienced with recording has told me that i need a dedicated drive to record to. Thus, I should put GarageBand onto one of my externals so as not to use the system drive, he says. I'm not sure if this is even possible. I could get logic and put it on there, but, I'm not proficient enough with it yet to purchase it.

One of the drives is a 1TB and the other is 320g. Any advice as to what I can do? I was thinking if I can't get the software on one of them to use as a dedicated drive, then I could just stick with my original plan and run GarageBand off the system drive and save all my ideas/songs onto the external drive.

What do you all think?

[sammich]

Any application itself should run off the system drive. The application doesn't need a dedicated drive to run. I think what your friend means is that you keep all your projects and media used in that project on a dedicated drive. It's those files that will get accessed a lot and if you want smooth, consistent performance you put all of that on a dedicated drive.

[NewEyesOpen]

Any application itself should run off the system drive. The application doesn't need a dedicated drive to run. I think what your friend means is that you keep all your projects and media used in that project on a dedicated drive. It's those files that will get accessed a lot and if you want smooth, consistent performance you put all of that on a dedicated drive.

That's what I thought at first, too. But, he keeps persisting that I install the software on a separate disk. I think that would be easy with a desktop like a Mac Pro where you have multiple hard drive bays.

I'm just trying to optimize my mac's performance without jeopardizing it's system drive, which is a WD scorpio black I put in it, and get the best out of it the computer, without ruining anything. (I'm overly anal, I know, it's a curse.)

[jodelli]

There's no reason to run Garageband on a secondary drive, unless of course you're taking a performance hit due to a drive filling up.

But back everything up, multiple copies of .aiff's, .aac's and especially .band's.

[NewEyesOpen]

There's no reason to run Garageband on a secondary drive, unless of course you're taking a performance hit due to a drive filling up.

But back everything up, multiple copies of .aiff's, .aac's and especially .band's.

Thanks, man. That's definitely what I'm going to do now.