exteral hard drive for sonar XL

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russ5ell
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2011/07/16 11:55:16 (permalink)

exteral hard drive for sonar XL

I'm thanking about buying a external hard drive to run sonar x1 wondering if anyone is having  any success using an external hard drive to run Sonar

what are the pro's or con's, thanks
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    John T
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    Re:exteral hard drive for sonar XL 2011/07/16 12:15:03 (permalink)
    How do you mean? To install the app on, or to record audio to, or something else?

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    russ5ell
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    Re:exteral hard drive for sonar XL 2011/07/16 12:17:17 (permalink)
    to record audio on or to only use for storage
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    Re:exteral hard drive for sonar XL 2011/07/16 12:25:20 (permalink)
    My machine has 3 internal drives and an external firewire for Audio. I backup the external onto one of the internal drives. I do this to minimise the risk of damage should the computer go down, and, should it go down, I can then take the drive and continue working on my laptop with virtually no disruption to clients. 

    I also dont have to wait for the computer to be repaired to establish that there was, in fact, no damage to the data. Should the external go down, I can continue with the internal.

    There are better ways than firewire now but the principle remains the same. I can see no real disadvantages other than when backing the audio drive to another extenal USB, it tends to be slower. You could make a theoretical data-throughput case against it but in reality I've never come close to hitting the max - even on large projects.


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    John T
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    Re:exteral hard drive for sonar XL 2011/07/16 12:27:27 (permalink)
    You can do it, with a fast enough drive, yeah. I did for a few years with a Seagate external drive attached to a laptop over USB. 

    The drive itself will not generally be your constraint. Get a drive that's at least 7200 rpm, and you can get great track counts in theory. What matters more is how it's connected. USB 2 is about half the speed of SATA II, for example.

    Why in particular are you looking at an external drive?



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