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Re: setting up Mac for audio - questions
did it last week. if you have a time machine backup of the old mac,
just plug it in to the new mac and turn it on... worked for me... like
a dream.. same as old mac now with added Lion!!!!
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On 4 Oct 2011, at 01:13, Louie Angulo <louie.angulo@googlemail.com> wrote:
> and by the way folks,would you recomend me do a fresh reinstall of
> everything in my new imac or would you use a program like carbon clone
> to save time and copy everything to my imac? bear in mind that the old
> one has OSX leopard and the new one i believe come with OSX lion
> has anybody done this?
>
> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Louie Angulo
> <louie.angulo@googlemail.com> wrote:
>> i know Time capsule is not FW,though it has ethernet and USB instead
>> and now up to 3TB of space,i believe
>> so would you recomend it and would it be fast in combination with
>> logic to access all the installed Native libraries in it for example?
>> cheers
>> Luis
>>
>> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:20 AM, richard sales <richard@glasswing.com>
>> wrote:
>>> Yea, all audio on a separate drive, all virtual instruments are
>>> SUPPOSED TO
>>> BE on yet another separate drive. Firewire works great for me! I've
>>> done
>>> some very high track count sessions without blip.
>>> I've heard the new USB is faster. Don't know how robust it is.
>>>
>>> And Drobo (an external modified raid) is THE BOMB for backup. I have
>>> 7TB in
>>> mine right now and will upgrade to 10 TB soon. They're very slow to
>>> set up,
>>> slow (as in days sometimes) when installing new drives, but once set
>>> up,
>>> they're great for backup (use Time Machine). Then I have a Newer
>>> Technologies Voyager for second backup. I take the old drives out of
>>> the
>>> Drobo when they get upgraded and use them in the Voyager for second
>>> backup.
>>> Voyager is just like a socket you plug different drives into as
>>> needed. In
>>> lieu of a Drobo, I'd at least get a Voyager and a bunch of 1 or 2 TB
>>> raw
>>> internal drives to plug into it when needed.
>>> Drobo is great because, if a drive fails, you just plug in a new one.
>>> No
>>> data lost. I use the cheap WD green Caviar drives. Slow but, again,
>>> great
>>> for safety.
>>> www.drobo.com
>>> Buy 'em at Egghead or wherever.
>>> One drawback: the more HDs you have hanging on Firewire (etc), the
>>> slower
>>> the startup.
>>> Every time I've done a partition, I've regretted it. I'm sure YMMV.
>>> Other World Computing makes great drives for recording. Guaranteed for
>>> three years or so.
>>> http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB
>>> LaCie is also good. I think they might cost more.
>>> I usually buy raw drives from Tiger Direct. Haven't shopped a whole
>>> lot,
>>> though.
>>> R
>>> richard sales
>>> www.glasswing.com
>>> www.hayleysales.com
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Oct 3, 2011, at 10:41 AM, Per Boysen wrote:
>>>
>>> Firewire can be daisy-chained. Thus no need for a hub. Avoid USB for
>>> audio if possible (USB data transmission capacity flutter with varying
>>> CPU load).
>>>
>>> It's more safe to use extra drives for your project recordings. Best
>>> is two drives, where you copy files to keep them identical. This
>>> serves two causes: you back up your work and you never have to suffer
>>> downtime to defrag the work dirves (given you reformat a drive before
>>> copying all work files to it).
>>>
>>> Greetings from Sweden
>>>
>>> Per Boysen
>>> www.boysen.se
>>> www.perboysen.com
>>> www.looproom.com internet music hub
>>>
>>>
>>>
>>> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Louie Angulo
>>> <louie.angulo@googlemail.com> wrote:
>>>
>>> Hello people,
>>>
>>> im going to be aupgrading from the dual core 21" imac to the 27" quad
>>>
>>> core for audio recording purposes.
>>>
>>> The thing i need to consider before buying is:
>>>
>>> would it be better to get it with the 2TB HD than the 1TB?
>>>
>>> would you then partition the 2TB in two and put all of your software
>>>
>>> in one and your recordings into the second partition?
>>>
>>> or would you just get a 1TB and get an external HD to store your files?
>>>
>>> which one would you recommend or is faster, firewire or USB? could you
>>>
>>> give me a link to professional reliable ones?
>>>
>>> the Imacs only have one FW800 port in the back where i already have my
>>>
>>> RME FW800 plugged in
>>>
>>> that means i would need a FW hub to plug the external HD,which one
>>>
>>> would you recomend that have combinations of USBs and FW?
>>>
>>> so far ive found this one :
>>>
>>> http://www.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=199941
>>>
>>> thanx for your help!
>>>
>>> cheers
>>>
>>> Luis
>>>
>>>
>>>
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>>>
>>> www.luis-angulo.com
>>>
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