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sok186

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jun 29, 2007
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I really want to get my iTunes going as fast as possible on my computer and wondered if it might run better in a Mountain Lion environment.

Currently running:

MacBook Pro 5,3 (Mid-2009)
Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66 GHz
4GB RAM
10.6.8

iTunes 11.0.1
Library: 75,933 items, 878.4 GB

With music on 2TB External WD My Book Studio connected through Firewire 800. (Not sure what the RPM is but I believe its 7200).

Any help on squeezing the most out of iTunes would be most appreciated!
 
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barkmonster

macrumors 68020
Dec 3, 2001
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Lancashire
Max out the RAM and upgrade your internal drive to an SSD. The library files for iTunes reside on your boot drive and no matter what drive the actual music/video files are on, any RPM of hard drive is more than fast enough to stream audio and video in the bandwidths used by MPEG4/H.264 formats, even HD stuff and audio is even less demanding whether it's AAC/MP3, lossless or even raw audio like a stereo WAV or AIFF.
 

sok186

macrumors newbie
Original poster
Jun 29, 2007
7
0
Actually, my iTunes Library file resides on my external. Should I move it to the internal?
 
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