I just moved my studio downstairs into a room that's temperature usually is pretty low. I would say around 55-60 degrees. I have noticed that my system has been overloading much more then before. I noticed the external hard drive is cold in temperature when I feel it. Could that be causing my system to overload?

Does it make a big difference? I have an macbook but can only have 2 gigs of ram. That is the max the laptop can have. I have a 250gig 7500 rpm hard drive. I am running Logic 7, synthogy piano, and want to buy ocean way drums but scared as my system already gets overloaded sometimes. If I buy a 10,000 rpm hard drive will it solve my problems or will it not make a significant difference?

Hi. it seems one can never ask enough questions :)

I am very new to Pro Tools as of yesterday. I am running Pro Tools LE 7.4 on a new laptop. I am looking for someone that would kindly list out some External Harddtives that I can make a choice from for Recording and Playing Back Audio. I am using a Digidesign 003 Rack Factory. I know that I need 7200 RPM with an NTFS file system for Vista Ultimate.

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Dear Readers,

Just recently, I came across a couple of comparative tests regarding fast Hard Drives.

Hi everybody. right now I'm running Pro Tools m-powered 7.3 on my intel macbook. I want to buy a USB external hard drive with 7200rpm to increase recording performance and the number of tracks i can record. It says on Digidesign website that PT does not support recording onto an external HD (Digidesign says a lot of stuff though).

Hi all. I've used Logic 7.0, with a PowerBook G4 1.33 Ghz (1.25 Gb RAM) for the past two+ years to do some simple recording, usually 1 - 2 tracks at a time, maybe a total of 10 -12 tracks when complete. I've used an external firewire hard drive (Lacie 7200 rpm, 250 Gb) with no problems. I've used both USB (Lexicon) and Firewire (Firepod) audio interfaces.

Hoping someone can help out - I work between my home studio and a professional room and I need an external hard drive to carry PT sessions between.

Hey everyone, I just bought a Macbook with an 80 gig hard drive for recording. I'm planning on buying a 7200 rpm external hard drive, but the firewire input on the computer will be used by my interface. Would a USB hard drive be fast enough to record with?