I think I should probably clarify that I store my projects and samples separately because in the past, I used to go between laptop and desktop pretty often. However, at $50, that is actually one of the cheapest terabyte drives I've seen. This is one of the things I dislike in Apple computers, but oh Thank you also for the suggestion, but I do already have a USB 3 1TB hard drive. Unfortunately, easy customisation of the internal components isn't something you can do on Apple machines. I'm no expert though, and this may have changed Thank you for the suggestion. I should have probably remembered that SSDs are very quick anyway, even if they can't take advantage of Thunderbolt. In my defence, it was about 23:30 pm when I wrote this :) I did briefly check out Thunderbolt drives a while back because my laptop actually has 2 (apparently 20Gb/s - Thunderbolt 2?), but dismissed the idea at the time because most forums I visited claimed that it wasn't worth it as none of the external drives, even SSDs, could use all that speed, and many that I looked at were unfortunately out of my price range. Thank you all for your input, this is very Yeah, looking back at it I kinda did answer my question. Forget 5 GB/s with USB3, we are talking about a potential transfer rate of 40 GB/s with a Thunderbolt 3 port and a connected drive! Good Luck!Īnno861 : Tue 13th Dec 2016 : 5 years ago Something to consider in the future, If you are buying a new Mac Pro Notebook in 2017, make sure it has a Thunderbolt ver.3 port. So to solve the lack of available USB ports you have, go and buy yourself a usb hub, problem solved: But never under any circumstances should you ever consider a SD Card in your production studio, I think you know that already. It was extremely slow and quite brutal.Īslo, I am not sure why you are using USB 3.0 anyways when your eSATA port may offer better and faster performance. Well, I did a DAW and SD-card experiment of my own a while back that centered around multitasking performance and music production with my state of the art, extreme performance SDXC UHS-I/90MB SD Card from Sandisk. To access them in some phones, they are sometimes located behind a battery or behind a door on a digital 4k camera. On some other technology devices the SD Card's port are typically found in places that isn't meant for constant hands on interruptions and hands on activity. SD Cards are not even a close alternative when multitasking or transferring data, not even the fastest SD card is recommended. I am a former certified technology expert. And it sounded more like you are regretting some kind of mistake or purchase you made. JoeFunktastic : Tue 13th Dec 2016 : 5 years as I kept reading your opening I found that you may have answered yourself. With my external drive, I have no room for, say, a mouse (because small increments are actually kind of hard on a touchpad) or any other USB peripheral, so I considered using an SD card of about 64 - 128 GB to host my files instead, however some online research informed me that while good SD cards, at least in my price range, can reach upwards of 90 MB/s, USB 3 can theoretically reach 5 Gb/s.ĭoes anyone, or has anyone, used SD cards to store project files for their DAW? If I switched to SD, would my DAW constantly tell me that it can't read data fast enough? Is this a pointless question? My problem is this: I only have two available USB slots, one of which must be occupied by my Scarlett audio interface. Obviously, being a laptop, I have less hard drive space available so to keep my internal hard drive free, I keep my project files and samples on an external USB 3 disc drive. Anno861 : Mon 12th Dec 2016 : 5 years agoĬurrently, I am producing my music on a 2015 model Macbook Pro.
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