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Pending Upgrades For Music Production

JamesGorman

JamesGorman

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Hey everyone. Im planning on upgrading my system in the near future. I do a substantial amount of music production on my notebook. Im also looking to run windows 7 in Parallels. My first order of business is to get 8Gb of ram. Im probably going to order the 8GB kit from crucial off of new egg. Does anyone have any experience with this particular kit ( http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148276 )
Im also looking to upgrade the HDD. I would like an SSD but I need at leas 500GB. Are the Momentus XT's really that fast? Or should i just go with a 7200RPM. Im Concerned a little about how much more sound/vibration a 7200RPM drive may cause, but is it really that much more noticeable?

Thanks In Advance
 
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I have the 7200 rpm (500GB) HDD and cannot tell any difference whatsoever. I ordered it from OWC...very happy with it!
 
CosmoPilot said:
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I have the 7200 rpm (500GB) HDD and cannot tell any difference whatsoever. I ordered it from OWC...very happy with it!
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Thats good to know. Now it just comes down to if I want the Momentus XT or just a regular drive. Im also considering possibly getting an Intel SSD, and than just using external storage, But I don't know how the recording programs would like that.
 
JamesGorman said:
Hey everyone. Im planning on upgrading my system in the near future. I do a substantial amount of music production on my notebook. Im also looking to run windows 7 in Parallels. My first order of business is to get 8Gb of ram. Im probably going to order the 8GB kit from crucial off of new egg. Does anyone have any experience with this particular kit ( http://www.newegg.ca/Product/Product.aspx?Item=N82E16820148276 )
Im also looking to upgrade the HDD. I would like an SSD but I need at leas 500GB. Are the Momentus XT's really that fast? Or should i just go with a 7200RPM. Im Concerned a little about how much more sound/vibration a 7200RPM drive may cause, but is it really that much more noticeable?

Thanks In Advance
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I just put that exact RAM into my 13" MBP, and it's working great. No problems. I also put a 7200rpm 500GB drive into it, got it from OWC. It's a little bit faster than the stock 5400 drive, but it's definitely a little louder. My 13" used to be silent, but with the 7200rpm i can definitely hear it spinning. But when it comes down to it, and I'm doing audio work in Pro Tools or Studio One, the fan kicks on anyway, so there's noise either way. I also use an external firewire drive for all my audio tracking though. I use a G-Drive Mini 320GB. Also a 7200rpm drive that I can hear spinning.

I'd love to go the SSD route, but they are way too rich for my blood at the moment. Hopefully in the next year or two the prices will drop a lot.
 
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I work in the music industry and have just put in 8GB into my late 2009 mbp. I also have a 500GB 7200 momentus xt in the post, will report back soon. I currently have the standard 5400 HD which is sometimes to slow when working in Logic as i get disc to slow errors.

I use an external 7200 G-Drive as well.
 
logicpro7 said:
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I work in the music industry and have just put in 8GB into my late 2009 mbp. I also have a 500GB 7200 momentus xt in the post, will report back soon. I currently have the standard 5400 HD which is sometimes to slow when working in Logic as i get disc to slow errors.

I use an external 7200 G-Drive as well.
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Logic Gave me that same error the other day. Thats sort of what prompted my choice to upgrade.
 
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Yes, same here. I thought i bought the mbp with the 7200 upgrade, but after seeing the to slow errors i checked and found i had been working with a 5400.
 
DaftZombie said:
You say you'd like to go SSD but need a HD in the 500gb range, why not get a SSD and a 500gb external?
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I was thinking this, but how would the external handle being recorded to? Ill be using firewire of course. But I'm a tad worried that it'll be a little bit to slow to keep up.
 
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