I can feel it away from hey what's going
on out there I'm Sean Devine hope you
all are doing well today I want to talk
about external hard drives and how they
can be extremely advantageous to those
of you who are working in the studio
with audio whether you're a producer a
mix engineer a sound designer anything
that you do that has a demanding da W
you want to have external hard drives in
your setup they're going to make your
workflow a lot smoother and more
efficient they will make your da W have
much better performance they're gonna
minimize recording latency and they're
going to give you a solid backup that
you can rely on in case something goes
wrong with one of your drives so let me
tell you a little bit about my own
personal setup with my external hard
drives in the studio I have two
identical two terabyte drives that are
clones of each other in terms of the
information on them I have all of my
session files all of my sample libraries
all that stuff mixing sessions
production sessions they are stored on
the external so if anything went wrong
with the internal drive of my computer
the only thing on there is the software
itself so that and the plugins which I
have a backup for that I'll tell you
about that in just a second but I want
that to rely on just running the OS
keeping the da W going smoothly I don't
want to fill that up with a lot of files
and make that one really slow and bogged
down so if you've got a backup like this
or a clone of your main drive with all
your data on it if one of those drives
fails I'm immediately able to work and
pick up right where I left off no matter
what so while the other one I'm getting
that replaced or I'm getting it fixed I
have all the data on another drive to
where I'm not stuck not working so the
third external drive I have is a one
terabyte USB Drive and it's not
particularly fast or high-performance
like these others are
but it is just used for a time machine
back up or a complete machine back up of
my system computer so if something
happened with that drive I have a copy
that I could at least back up to my
laptop and have the setup with all my
software all my plugins saved to this
and I back this up daily now as far as
connectivity I do not have a newer
machine I'm using an older iMac so I
don't actually have Thunderbolt or even
USB 3.0 on this computer the drives I
have utilized USB 2.0 I think they could
use 3.0 if I had it but right now I'm
using that older technology I would
recommend if you have a computer with
Thunderbolt or USB 3.0 absolutely take
advantage of an external drive that has
his connectivity that's going to give
you even faster read and write times
from your DW and with your samples so
you're gonna get a lot better
performance one other thing you may want
to consider with external drives is
going with a solid-state drive or SSD
external now I do not have an SSD at
this time but it's something that I'm
definitely considering the reasons for
it being number one these drives with
the the mechanical physical aspects of
them they are a little bit loud there's
fans in these and so I'm recording next
to my computer that's always a concern
and so sometimes I have to turn those
off just to keep things nice and quiet
also the SSDs are going to give you much
better performance again they're going
to be very fast especially if you have
that newer connectivity technology like
thunderbolt like USB 3.0 they are quite
a bit more expensive than the older
technology however moving forward they
are going to be the way to go in terms
of performance alright so that's a
couple of quick thoughts on using
external hard drives with your D aw I
can promise you if you're not utilizing
this right now as soon as you start
saving your sessions and saving a lot of
your audio content onto the external
it's going to make your D aw run so much
better and keep your workflow a lot
smoother and also keep your backups more
consistent and have you better organized
in that way so if you have any questions
or comments about external hard drives
feel free to leave them below if you
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