How important is HD speed to audio creation?

[TheScavenger]

I was thinking about upgrading the HD on my macbook from the factory 120GB 5400 RPM to a 120GB 7200 RPM? What effect would this have on digital music creation potential?

thanks, Josh

 

[Killyp]

It would increase it definitely, but I suspect the head speed is more of an issue, although I think this would probably see an increase when you also increase the RPM of the hard drive.

 

[TheScavenger]

It would increase it definitely, but I suspect the head speed is more of an issue, although I think this would probably see an increase when you also increase the RPM of the hard drive.

Thanks for the input! Anybody else?

Josh

 

[NickD]

Why not go with the 5400 RPM internal, and then get a fast FW400 or FW800 external HD to use as a scratch disk of sorts?

 

[TheScavenger]

Why not go with the 5400 RPM internal, and then get a fast FW400 or FW800 external HD to use as a scratch disk of sorts?

I found a 160GB 7200.2 Seagate Momentus for $119. I couldn't pass it up 🙂 I will still probably get a FW400 as well.

Josh

 

[NickD]

That sounds like a good plan! It should give you enough storage hopefully for all your files.

 

[JHacker]

I found a 160GB 7200.2 Seagate Momentus for $119. I couldn't pass it up 🙂 I will still probably get a FW400 as well.

Josh

Yes, get a firewire 400 external as well. It's not recommended to record audio to the same drive that the program is running on.