Running Serato on a Mac Book Pro. Looking for your comments on a terabyte drive that will be used for a backup of the music library. I purchased a Lacie drive but was told I would have problems with it. Thanks!
Recommendations On A Hard Drive
- Thread starter Ruben Mora
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I like the Western Digital My Passport Ultra. I have 2 of the 2Tb models. They need to be reformatted to work on Macs, but are supported.
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Passport-Ultra-Portable-External/dp/B00W8XXYSM
https://www.amazon.com/Black-Passport-Ultra-Portable-External/dp/B00W8XXYSM
Actually, if they are FAT formatted, OSX can read and write to them too. OSX can also read NTFS -- but not write to it.
Every WD drive I have picked up has been FAT32 (because they don't know where you will be using it).
Their spec sheet for these drives state NTFS .. you could be right though. http://www.wdc.com/en/products/products.aspx?id=1000#Tab3
I also use a Western Digital My Passport Ultra.
I used to use an external that had a power supply since I thought it might be a more stable set up. But a caterer killed the power to my tent last year, and the improper shut off on that drive took forever to reboot. So, I switched to a USB powered drive then, and it's been far easier to deal with.
I used to use an external that had a power supply since I thought it might be a more stable set up. But a caterer killed the power to my tent last year, and the improper shut off on that drive took forever to reboot. So, I switched to a USB powered drive then, and it's been far easier to deal with.
Lacie drives are usually pretty good. I'd give it a shot.
I use to portable 2 TB HD's. One is a Seagate and the other is WD. No issues for me. I wonder how big is that 8 TB from Best Buy?
You need 2 X 2TB drives?!
What could you possibly be carrying with you (unless you spin video) that takes that much space to do a gig?
One is for backup and I have a bunch of different files of music on each. It's up to over 1.5 TB space used right now.
I do video and all my laptops have one 1tb SSD ( c:\ and d:\) and a 2tb standard (e:\), both internal. My video library has consumed the e:\ entirely and a goodly part of the d:\ partition. When the price of the 2tb SSD drops to something I'm willing to spend, the expansion will happen.
My external drives for laptops are all USB 3.0 2tb (6). OCD about backing up the backups.
My external drives for laptops are all USB 3.0 2tb (6). OCD about backing up the backups.
I have a couple of Lacie Rugged's and Lacie 2Big's, not a problem with any. I would recommend going with Thunderbolt if possible, as it is much faster, even though USB3 is pretty fast, Thunderbolt is simultaneous bidirectional in its transfer rates, and the bus isn't shared unless you daisy chain, USB3 is still a shared bus with other USB devices you have plugged in. I have moved 3TB over USB3 (Cloning a laptop) took about 14 hours, same drive on Thunderbolt took about 3 hours.
Unless you're doing some serious processing, you won't see a difference between USB 2, 3 or Thunderbolt.
I do a lot of video stuff. But I also run MacBook pros with 2 2tb Evo 850s in raid 0 
. I notice a BIG difference.
. I notice a BIG difference.