![]() ![]() Online content production requires a lot of storage. The price of 2TB external SSDs will be low enough for me to move soon.Photo Credit: Glyph Production Technologies Phasing out all spinning hard drives except for project archives and off-site backups. I can boot from that drive if I go to a friend's studio if I want. I can plug the external SSD into any of my Macs (mini, MacBook Pro, iMac) and work on the projects. Will probably put working backups on the external SSD. I plan to put working projects on the internal drive and still have libraries on the external. I have better performance with projects located on another machine on my network - 120Mbyte/sec. A 50 track Logic project might work sometimes, but most times fails to keep up. The number of IOPS to the spinning drives is abysmal. Spinning hard drives are not so good - best case USB3 transfers at 100Mbyte/sec best, 80 Mbyte typical. Read/Write speeds are 250Mbyte/sec + the drives can do more than 200 IOPS - so no lags to speak of. My external SSD contains 3rd-party sound libraries, "working" projects, and a complete, bootable OS with Logic installed - 1TB SSD.,Įxternal USB3 SSDs are fine for projects and libraries. I currently have a 1TB Fusion drive internal to my iMac - soon to change What advice would you give someone who is very serious about music production but not yet rolling in dough? I'd obviously rather save a couple thousand bucks (by sticking with the model I have now) - but should I just suck it up and spend the extra dough so that I'm good to go and don't have to worry about it later on? I don't want to be creatively cock blocked 6 months down the road because my laptop isn't powerful enough. I don't want to spend a lot of time fussing around with things and I will be traveling to a remote area for a while, void of Apple and its geniuses. ![]() internal storage? I am on the go a lot and would rather err on the side of caution in this situation. Apart from the annoyance of having to lug around a hard drive, are there any other downsides to using external vs. The genius at Apple said I'd be fine with this model and that I could just get an external hard drive to supplement it. (Also, this laptop's fan is quite loud - as if it's already under strain, but maybe that's something else.) With Logic installed, almost half of my storage is already gone - and I haven't even purchased any other samples yet. ![]() I am still in the two-week exchange window and I am now thinking that I should upgrade from the basic 15-inch MacBook Pro, which has a 2.6 GHz Intel Core i7 processor, 16 GB 2400 MHz DDR4 memory and 250 GB of storage. ![]() I'm new but very serious about music production and I've been seeing some different opinions from music producers online (and geniuses at Apple) about what laptop I should get. Hi there - I need your wisdom on choosing a MacBook. ![]()
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