Support
Looper's Delight
|
Support |
|
|
did it last week. if you have a time machine backup of the old mac, just plug it in to the new mac and turn it on... worked for me... like a dream.. same as old mac now with added Lion!!!! Sent from my (advertisement removed) On 4 Oct 2011, at 01:13, Louie Angulo <louie.angulo@googlemail.com> wrote: > and by the way folks,would you recomend me do a fresh reinstall of > everything in my new imac or would you use a program like carbon clone > to save time and copy everything to my imac? bear in mind that the old > one has OSX leopard and the new one i believe come with OSX lion > has anybody done this? > > On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 1:35 AM, Louie Angulo > <louie.angulo@googlemail.com> wrote: >> i know Time capsule is not FW,though it has ethernet and USB instead >> and now up to 3TB of space,i believe >> so would you recomend it and would it be fast in combination with >> logic to access all the installed Native libraries in it for example? >> cheers >> Luis >> >> On Tue, Oct 4, 2011 at 12:20 AM, richard sales <richard@glasswing.com> >> wrote: >>> Yea, all audio on a separate drive, all virtual instruments are >>> SUPPOSED TO >>> BE on yet another separate drive. Firewire works great for me! I've >>> done >>> some very high track count sessions without blip. >>> I've heard the new USB is faster. Don't know how robust it is. >>> >>> And Drobo (an external modified raid) is THE BOMB for backup. I have >>> 7TB in >>> mine right now and will upgrade to 10 TB soon. They're very slow to >>> set up, >>> slow (as in days sometimes) when installing new drives, but once set >>> up, >>> they're great for backup (use Time Machine). Then I have a Newer >>> Technologies Voyager for second backup. I take the old drives out of >>> the >>> Drobo when they get upgraded and use them in the Voyager for second >>> backup. >>> Voyager is just like a socket you plug different drives into as >>> needed. In >>> lieu of a Drobo, I'd at least get a Voyager and a bunch of 1 or 2 TB >>> raw >>> internal drives to plug into it when needed. >>> Drobo is great because, if a drive fails, you just plug in a new one. >>> No >>> data lost. I use the cheap WD green Caviar drives. Slow but, again, >>> great >>> for safety. >>> www.drobo.com >>> Buy 'em at Egghead or wherever. >>> One drawback: the more HDs you have hanging on Firewire (etc), the >>> slower >>> the startup. >>> Every time I've done a partition, I've regretted it. I'm sure YMMV. >>> Other World Computing makes great drives for recording. Guaranteed for >>> three years or so. >>> http://eshop.macsales.com/shop/firewire/1394/USB/EliteAL/eSATA_FW800_FW400_USB >>> LaCie is also good. I think they might cost more. >>> I usually buy raw drives from Tiger Direct. Haven't shopped a whole >>> lot, >>> though. >>> R >>> richard sales >>> www.glasswing.com >>> www.hayleysales.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> On Oct 3, 2011, at 10:41 AM, Per Boysen wrote: >>> >>> Firewire can be daisy-chained. Thus no need for a hub. Avoid USB for >>> audio if possible (USB data transmission capacity flutter with varying >>> CPU load). >>> >>> It's more safe to use extra drives for your project recordings. Best >>> is two drives, where you copy files to keep them identical. This >>> serves two causes: you back up your work and you never have to suffer >>> downtime to defrag the work dirves (given you reformat a drive before >>> copying all work files to it). >>> >>> Greetings from Sweden >>> >>> Per Boysen >>> www.boysen.se >>> www.perboysen.com >>> www.looproom.com internet music hub >>> >>> >>> >>> On Mon, Oct 3, 2011 at 6:01 PM, Louie Angulo >>> <louie.angulo@googlemail.com> wrote: >>> >>> Hello people, >>> >>> im going to be aupgrading from the dual core 21" imac to the 27" quad >>> >>> core for audio recording purposes. >>> >>> The thing i need to consider before buying is: >>> >>> would it be better to get it with the 2TB HD than the 1TB? >>> >>> would you then partition the 2TB in two and put all of your software >>> >>> in one and your recordings into the second partition? >>> >>> or would you just get a 1TB and get an external HD to store your files? >>> >>> which one would you recommend or is faster, firewire or USB? could you >>> >>> give me a link to professional reliable ones? >>> >>> the Imacs only have one FW800 port in the back where i already have my >>> >>> RME FW800 plugged in >>> >>> that means i would need a FW hub to plug the external HD,which one >>> >>> would you recomend that have combinations of USBs and FW? >>> >>> so far ive found this one : >>> >>> http://www.belkin.com/IWCatProductPage.process?Product_Id=199941 >>> >>> thanx for your help! >>> >>> cheers >>> >>> Luis >>> >>> >>> >>> -- >>> >>> www.luis-angulo.com >>> >>> >>> >>> >>> >> >> >> >> -- >> www.luis-angulo.com >> > > > > -- > www.luis-angulo.com >