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External Drives Slowing Down MacBook Pro

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Battersea

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Nov 3, 2009
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Whenever I connect any one of three Lacie drives they instantly affect the speed of my 15inch MacBook Pro, especially when using Final Cut Pro. None of the drives are close to full & I'm connecting them with a FW 800, but other links working well too.

Any suggestions? :eek:
 
Battersea said:
Whenever I connect any one of three Lacie drives they instantly affect the speed of my 15inch MacBook Pro, especially when using Final Cut Pro. None of the drives are close to full & I'm connecting them with a FW 800, but other links working well too.

Any suggestions? :eek:
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Could the finder be indexing the drives, using up the CPU and ram quite a bit? My guess would be just that.

If that's the case, wait it out until the finder is done, then if it really bothers disable indexing for those drives.
 
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