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 mar. 2 oct. 2007, 23:11
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First post here.
I am running Logic version 6.4 off an Ibook G4 with an extra gig of Ram. I need an external hard drive that is relatively portable to hold music samples etc thus freeing up the Mac's hard drive.It should not be slower than
7,200rpm and have firewire connectibility, I would guess a minimum of 160gb.
Any recommendations would be greatly appreciated.
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ven. 5 oct. 2007, 18:19
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If you use the MacAlly in the end, give us feedback on it, it's a little gizmo around for some time and it could be helpful.
Sure for sample, the Little Big Disk is a bit over the head (more oriented into recording, heavy playback of tracks).
The little Western Digital in 2.5" external are cute too (fine drives, fine enclosure, but I don't remember if they are FW or USB only… and as my battery is about to end, I won't check just now)
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jeu. 25 oct. 2007, 22:30
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QUOTE (lepetitmartien @ Fri 5 Oct 2007, 18:19)  If you use the MacAlly in the end, give us feedback on it, it's a little gizmo around for some time and it could be helpful.
Sure for sample, the Little Big Disk is a bit over the head (more oriented into recording, heavy playback of tracks).
The little Western Digital in 2.5" external are cute too (fine drives, fine enclosure, but I don't remember if they are FW or USB only… and as my battery is about to end, I won't check just now) With my limited knowledge of these things, everything seems to work well and early indications suggest that it makes Logic run more smoothly (I have moved all samples/instruments onto the external drive). The MacAlly looks nice too, very compact with a nice blue light (obviously the most important part). One thing though, in order to 'format' the drive so the mac could read it I used Disc Utility then clicked 'Erase' - i found this procedure somewhere on a forum. However after deleting some items from the external drive the next time I started it the Mac did not bring up the Icon on the desktop when the drive was connected, it was the same when connected to a friend's Mac. I had to use the same disc utility procedure to get it working again and this obviously meant erasing all the items on the external drive. My question is, should this happen again, what is the simplest was to format an external drive without having to delete everything on that drive? thanks in advance.
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