Ladies and Gents,
Within the next week or to I'm about to switch from an old PC to an iMac 27" i7 and I have a bunch of external drives I need to consolidate. Currently, I have a total of about 2GB of data on 3 external drives with most files backed up, but the files are sort of all over the place.
Anyway, one reason I'm switching to Mac is I want to get back into recording again. I haven't decided on which firewire audio interface to purchase as of yet, but I sort of need to figure out an external drive configuration that works best for audio data and for backup purposes. My thinking is getting an external firewire drive for audio data and some sort of NAS for backing up my system.
Does this seem reasonable? What are some drive configurations out there that are being used to record audio and also to backup the system? Also, any problems or recommendations with a firewire drive being daisy chained into a firewire audio device? Does it matter which is plugged into the iMac first?
Another question... If I purchase Logic Express when ordering my iMac and decide to upgrade to the full version, is the LE amount applied to the full version?
cheers... first post btw..
Within the next week or to I'm about to switch from an old PC to an iMac 27" i7 and I have a bunch of external drives I need to consolidate. Currently, I have a total of about 2GB of data on 3 external drives with most files backed up, but the files are sort of all over the place.
Anyway, one reason I'm switching to Mac is I want to get back into recording again. I haven't decided on which firewire audio interface to purchase as of yet, but I sort of need to figure out an external drive configuration that works best for audio data and for backup purposes. My thinking is getting an external firewire drive for audio data and some sort of NAS for backing up my system.
Does this seem reasonable? What are some drive configurations out there that are being used to record audio and also to backup the system? Also, any problems or recommendations with a firewire drive being daisy chained into a firewire audio device? Does it matter which is plugged into the iMac first?
Another question... If I purchase Logic Express when ordering my iMac and decide to upgrade to the full version, is the LE amount applied to the full version?
cheers... first post btw..