External Hard Drives and Your DAW

Hey guys! By request, I'm sharing my external hard drive setup / thoughts for mixing and production work.
G-Drive 2TB External Hard Drive - amzn.to/2jVf4lE
G-Drive 1TB Mobile Hard Drive - amzn.to/2wObArg
Updated Video (SSDs / Thunderbolt 3): • External Hard Drives a...
🎛 Mixing Presets & DAW Templates
NEW Divine Mixing Vocal Chains Ultimate (StudioRack): bit.ly/vocal-chains-ultimate
UPDATED Divine Mixing Vocal Chains SR (StudioRack): bit.ly/vocal-chains-sr
UPDATED Divine Mastering Chains SR (StudioRack): bit.ly/mastering-chains-sr
Divine Mixing Waves Template (Logic Pro X, Cubase & Pro Tools): bit.ly/waves-template
Divine Mixing Vocal Chains - Logic Edition (Logic Pro X): bit.ly/vocal-chains-le
🎹 Synth Presets & Drum Samples:
8oh!8 Bass Presets for Serum - bit.ly/8oh8-presets
Urban Dreamscapes for Serum - bit.ly/urbandreamscapes
The Niche Kit (Creative Drum and Loop Kit) - bit.ly/nichekit
🎓 Video Training Courses:
NEW Divine Beat Mixing (Mixing & Mastering Course): bit.ly/divine-beat-mixing
Divine Mixing Session 1 (Mixing & Mastering Course): bit.ly/divinemixing
Divine Mixing Session 2 (Mixing & Mastering Video Course): bit.ly/divinemixing2
Hip Hop Vocal Production (Lynda.com Course): bit.ly/hhvpcourse
🎶 My Favorite Music Distribution Service (use this link for a discounted membership): distrokid.com/vip/seandivine
*I have the Musician Plus plan
🔈 My Studio Gear
seandivine.com/studio
💬 Let's Connect
seandivine.com
Instagram: / seandivine
Disclosure: My videos contain affiliate links to products and services I use and recommend. I may receive a small commission on sales through these links, at no additional cost to you. I appreciate your support as this helps me continue to create content for the channel!

[@humanambassador]

please please please can you make a video telling the steps how to move sample libraries from your mac to the hard drive and work efficiently​ plesssssssssssssse

[@the72u7h4]

10.4.2 you can just 'move library'

[@Crazelord91]

Get the symbolic linker app. You put the actual file on your hard drive, then you the app to create a linked folder which you'll put on your Mac where logic usually installs it (mac/library/audio) to make it think that it's installed on the mac itself

[@ShatoProduction]

ctrl c. ctrl v

[@SPMG769]

​@@ShatoProduction 😂😂😂

[@27fenderbender]

Sean. Honestly. I think you have some of the best videos that I have seen on youtube for everything related to music production and its ins and outs. Literally everything that I have looked up because I need quality information to help with my production, it's always your videos that pop up or somehow end up on your page with perfect and effective advice or how to's. To me your channel is the go to on these things from now on and I hope KZbin, the community here and producers alike continue to recognize you for your time and efforts. Hope you read this is you ever get down or anything, you are definitely making an impact. Thank you man.

[@SeanDivine]

Wow, thank you so much for sharing this! It's encouraging to hear the videos are still helping, very inspiring and much appreciated 🙏

[@BravadoRaps]

DEFINITELY agree with this!!

[@mikeechols5314]

Great tips! Especially the SSD comments 👊🏽

[@TheKnightimeProject]

Thanks for sharing Sean! Can't stress enough the importance of creating a system backup - I had a major 'incident' on Monday and had to restore my primary drive - I backup daily so was able to get back up and running in a couple hours or so. Information doesn't exist unless it's in more than one place. Keep'em coming bud!

[@jcr17]

Love your vids man, straight to the point and packed with solid information.. Keep it up bro

[@bikesnbeerz]

Just bought the Diamond bundle and your templates - Keep being good brotha.

[@TrayLittle]

Thank you for this! I had a hard drive that crashed and I lost so much stuff

[@confidenceondatrack76]

Ayyeee!! I was waitin on this for a long time. Thx man🙏

[@sonora8977]

great advice, Sean! I will be updating my OS in the near future to take once again advantage of the RAID configuration using two USB 3 HDDs.

[@justuswilson9137]

I've bee having computer crashing issues and problems with my DAW a lot recently, and I believe this could help! I haven't tried saving stuff on external drives and I have an 2012 iMac that's starting to move really slow, especially because I have a lot of sessions and projects that I'm recording, mixing, etc... Thank you for making this video!

[@SeanDivine]

sure thing Justus, it will definitely help!

[@GreasyBelcher]

I learned things watching this video - thus I have liked and subscribed :D Great channel, no loud "Hey Guys" b/s at the start. Always on point and right to the content!

[@tiffanyonwudinanti]

Sooooooo gooooooood! Always look forward to your uploads

[@marvinhampton83]

Thanks it really helps me I'm an amateur beat Maker I know I'm getting something big for this for Christmas 😎

[@The72Rabbit]

Its the same setup I have on my system. I have a backup SSD external for Software and libraries. I have another SSD for songs and projects. This is a good approach to handling files and software.

[@EqDior]

Great Vid! been doing this for years

[@chriso8193]

Good fundamentals learned here. Thanks.

[@JulesFox]

I wish I'd done this 2 years ago! Great video... I'm moving to this set up now (in 2020) and looking forward to more regular back-ups!

[@carljohanthore]

Great info! Thank you!

[@tonyd5635]

I got two externals one with my libraries and projects and the second with a Time Machine backup of the internal and the external.

[@findingtruth7323]

so you need to back up the external daily(time machine), is that complicated to do? and the library hard drive is always plug in in your computer? do you have 2 hard drives in your computer , if you have 2 partitions then what do you use your second partition for? is it projects?

[@tonyd5635]

@@findingtruth7323 No its not hard to do, once you set up time machine to back up both.I have a usb 3 dongle that has five ports so my drives are always connected. I have two Seagate external hard drives BTW

[@alanfernandez8650]

My laptop is filled with projects, samples etc 🙄🙄 I want to send everything yo my external hard drive but im scared my fl studio wont find the files for the projects

[@JenerallyxSpeaking]

Thanks! Super helpful

[@shamardaniel4819]

Thanks so much! Storage has always been one of those problems for me!! And this is a cheap and easy solution! Here I am about to buy internal $200 SSD’s for my laptop. Thx

[@Sangarang]

Great tips man! Just started using my Samsung EVO 850 SSD as an external drive and it's been killer!

[@SeanDivine]

:)

[@DollaSignGang1]

Hey Sean if I'm not asking too much can u do a video and show us how to transfer all files to the external hard drive and run the logic software off ur external hard drive 🙌🏾

[@michaelbyrne6166]

Also can you show how you can run vst plugins thru your external hard drive

[@Daxhenri]

Thanks Man! Awesome

[@djgeorgieporgie7862]

I have been cloning my hard drive for 5 years now. If you work with music is a must.

[@XRXONE]

DJ GeorgiePorgie How do you do this?

[@cabrawl473]

Do u use a program for that ?

[@XRXONE]

Cabrawl I’m still trynna figure that out also

[@cabrawl473]

Scooter1 lol from what I found online I think there’s a program u can purchase called carbon clone. Someone correct me if I’m wrong

[@RUHDD4HVN]

Macrium Reflect free!! Clone the whole drive including the OS. You won't be sorry..... easy peasy!!

[@Ibantar]

Damn good info!!! I currently have a 1TB Glyph Studio that stays put and a 1TB G-Drive portable with thunderbolt and they're pretty much clones. But you did give me a good idea and thats to get an additional drive for Time Machine backup. Hopefully viewers will heed this info. Mac or PC, they can go down.

[@Harveygarza08]

Could you, or would you happen to have a video or step by step exporting existing files to the hard drive, and setting up the system to automatically save to the external HD?

[@XRXONE]

Can you show how to do a complete machine backup

[@rayk6251]

Hello Sean, Good info. I too use an older Mac with and external G-drive for my session data. I'm looking for a good backup software solution that can make a clone of the system drive and incremental backups of my session data drive. Any recommendations?

[@iamwill8]

New Sub for sure! Love your flow and knowledge. Thanks!!!

[@SeanDivine]

welcome! :)

[@clintonblake1436]

Hi Sean. Do you have any advise about configuring iCloud settings once I have moved all my DAW audio files to an external hard drive. It seems that iCloud has "iCloud Drive" which stores certain app data back on the internal hard drive which seems to defeat the purpose. I would like to keep the DAW files in a cloud storage incase I loose the external hard drive but I don't want iCloud putting them back on my Mac's drive.

[@grannypotproduction]

Thanks bro soon check you an how to use it the right way

[@LuciensMusic]

I have to do this asap!

[@casinoroyale7162]

appreciate this so much brother!

[@SeanDivine]

glad it helped! 🙌

[@SkeletalMelodies99]

how do i set my stuff up like how you was explaining it in this video do you have a video on this

[@jeffd8597]

How do you copy from your main 2 TB external to the clone drive? Do you just drag it over after every session? Thanks Great video!

[@DannyBFunman]

Thank you

[@DimeloSean]

Can they be used as a main hard drive instead of the one that brings the internal iMac or not?

[@sondresolstrand]

Would it be better to run two external hard drives at the same time in terms of efficiency? One for storing libraries and one saving your Logic (and audio) files?

[@successmission98]

Thanks for the tips !

[@SeanDivine]

sure thing!

[@BengtSkogvall]

Very good video and very good way to organize your data! One addition I would suggest would be to do backups of (one) of the external drives like once a day to a third drive. Having two copies of everything, as you do, is a great way to protect your data. Having a third copy is even better. Imagine the situation that when the primary drive fails and you see it at first when the data is backuped or synchronized to the second drive. Then you have corrupted also your second drive. Hence the need for a third drive. If your external drives are set up as RAID 1, that would of course not occur and you would be notified when a drive failure is detected. The other drive would still function and you would not loose any data. Using RAID 1 also means that if you accidentally delete something, that data is immediately deleted on the second external drive as well. Also in this case, a third drive would save your day. I would do the backup to the third drive like once a day and store it outside of your studio. That way you would not loose any data even if your studio burns in the night.

[@SeanDivine]

good idea Bengt

[@cabrawl473]

Would iCloud work as a 3rd drive?

[@royallmuzikproductionz]

Hi Sean can I save all my waves plugins on my external hard drive and keep my Mac Pro empty as I only have 8Gb 256 and the D in the top right hand corner of Ableton starts flashing and my cpu goes way too high.i have a lot of waves plugins.so that takes alot of space.i only have instruments and samples on the external hard drive

[@Azivideo]

How do you actually do this? How do all of your session files get saved to the external while recording a project? I’m using a Logic Pro. Thanks!

[@thahoustonbassrunnaz4389]

Great video G! 💯

[@SeanDivine]

thanks!

[@JordanMeyer]

Great video my Brother. Quick question, hopefully you can answer. So I have been using the HD in my computer for pro tools about 15 years haha. I am now taking the step towards running an external. I know you run a time machine of the computer itself , protecting your software etc. My main concern ... what if the external I’m using specific for pro tools crashes , ultimately ruining my life , leaving me indebted to clients who’ve been recording an entire album at my studio. So, how would I backup that audio external drive as well ? Thanks In advance!!

[@SeanDivine]

redundant backups :) I run 2 external session drives that are identical kzbin.info/www/bejne/fJioqY2omc6Jh8U

[@DJSidhu24]

So much thanks bro video is useful to me.. and I'm asking daily bro about when you will tell about all of your equipment... Please do a video bro

[@DeekonJones]

Sidhu Superman bro.... C’mon bro.

[@henryssurfshowcase]

Thanks, very helpful!

[@SeanDivine]

glad to hear it!

[@orrinbynum5978]

Hi Sean. I have been watching many of you videos on making harmony since I bought the Harmony Engine and I just recently bought the Waves Harmony plug-in as well. After watching this video on External Hard Drives I agree with one of your other subscribers. I would like for you to make another video on how to back up you computer using a SSD external hard drive for a Mac and Cubase 12. That is what I am trying my best to learn how to do. I am still wishing you continued success with all of your music and all of your endeavors. Have a wonderful day.

[@SeanDivine]

I’ll see what I can do! Appreciate the feedback.

[@SoundSignals]

Great video Sean, thank you! Do you have any advice on how to keep your imac / logic working well when you have a lot of plugins instslled. Or when you have demoed a lot, but not necessarily bought all of them? For example debris files left in the computer etc. Thank you.

[@SeanDivine]

I would recommend removing any plugins you don't use!

[@user-je1kn8xi6s]

So... if you're recording your session to a external HD how does that affect the latency for live recordings?

[@treorross99]

Very helpful info thanks. 👍

[@SeanDivine]

glad to hear it

[@ntsikintsele6971]

Hey Sean Thank you for this video, do you recommend having two harddrives on my laptop one ssd to run the DAW and another normal drive to store plugins and sessions?

[@SeanDivine]

that's what I do :) 👍

[@williamhenderson602]

Hey Sean, Thanks so much for the video! Super helpful. Do you have a video explaining how to make one external HD to "clone" the other external HD? This would be so helpful

[@SeanDivine]

I don't and haven't found a "seamless" way of doing it. My drives / session folders are organized pretty well, so I just copy them over manually at the end of the day

[@alangallarcon9254]

@@SeanDivineit won’t let me move my files lol I get a reading error

[@lot0749]

Nice!

[@hassaanzahid9165]

so if I to install my vst's and other samples on external while DAW on internal SSD give better performance?

[@VintiqueSound]

Great video. Especially important to backup and to use multiple drives for improved performance. Just for further clarification, it's not the fact that you have "external" drives that make it faster, it's the fact that your session and media data are stored on a separate drive than the OS & DAW/plugins software. So you can have an internal SSD for your OS & DAW & plugins, then an internal SSD or Hard Drive for all your session files. The "external" factor doesn't add any performance benefits. I go a step further and keep all of my sample library content (NI Komplete Ultimate, Steinberg VST sound library, etc.) on a 3rd drive so that reading the library content doesn't bog the system down.

[@WoWLaZ]

how much space capacity would you say for the external?

[@VintiqueSound]

@@WoWLaZ I guess it depends on what you're trying to do. Sometimes when a drive is closer to being full you begin to lose some performance out of the drive. So having no more than 75% would be ideal. Also, it would be ideal to only buy new drives no sooner than every 4 years or so. If you work on tons of clients' music, you might want to go no smaller than 4 GBs. You'll future proof your workflow and system a little bit that way. But price is a factor as well. You may want to keep all your sample library on the external drive and move all your clients' content that's older than 2 years onto a 3rd drive to help keep your main external drive relatively clean.

[@DjShadowsound265]

Hey Sean, not to sure about the cloning feature of hard drives but instead I had this idea for my hard drive set up. My iMac SSD has the DAW installed on it and I have an external SSD drive that contains the Samples, Vst's, project files etc and everything is also backed up to a external HDD as a "just in case" thing.

[@SeanDivine]

that'll work 👍

[@vladdyvansavage8760]

Just ordered a Samsung SSD & LaCie portable drives via an online store here in Oz. Been using an ole Seagate drive for backups for awhile but it's quite slow and can't run my song projects off that. I've noticed HS5 monitors you got there, been using those for years, they're clean & clinical.What IMac is that? I've bought a mint condition 2011 Imac last year for the price of a portable hard drive and it's superb for recording.

[@trellyproductions7685]

What should I install on my external hardrive

[@Derichbin2909]

is it ok leaving your ssd plugged the whole day when the pc is on,,,do u leave it plugged even when not mixing ?

[@cabrawl473]

Yo Sean How did u clone your external HD?

[@Boni0absn]

thanks!

[@ericwilliamson2797]

Fucking thank you. I’ve literally been looking for a simple explanation like this for months. Nicely tied together all the bits of knowledge vomit I’ve collected over the web without trying to sound like you have a computer IQ of 3000 in the process.

[@SeanDivine]

:) glad to hear it!

[@mr.k-lon5224]

Like your videos I see you have logic, could you explain the categories of save, save as, save a copy as. Where it going to internal and external hard drive . Thank you ,

[@diegolopez6604]

Great video, thank you very much. I just wanted to comment, you mentioned Time Machine for your OS back up. But if I'm not mistaken, even if you recoup information from a time machine back up, you still have to install a fresh new OS. That means that you lose all your plug-in installations And daw programs which can be very dreadful! I've been there. I will recommend carbon copy which Ive been using. It is very fast, very effective, and you can use it as a start up OS drive as long as your computer permits starting up from an external drive. Good luck and once again thank you for a great video.

[@SeanDivine]

thanks Diego! I've used carbon copy also, great software for backups!

[@domdova5988]

If i move my sessions to the external drive. I can delete the sessions in the laptop? Correct? And thats what frees up the space

[@royallmuzikproductionzuk7912]

Hi Sean I got an issue with ext drives .I have a Seagate 2T and a 1T Samsung and occasionally I have to flip from pc to Mac Pro according to the project (Ableton live 10) and sometimes ,well most times the project won't open. Any ideas for a compatible external drive. Cheers

[@findingtruth7323]

i have ssd 250 gig with the system and 1tb hard drive on a second partition, what would you recommend me to do, to buy a external ssd and keep the library there and save the projects on the D partition 1 tb which is in the computer.? if annybody knows i would greatly appriciate yall help thank yuo!

[@djschmoov3]

How do you recommend to format HDD's and SSD's? I'm a windows 10 user. Thanks!

[@LFiers]

Hi, I recently purchased an external Samsung T5 1TB SSD drive and when I play MP3's or WAV's, my audio stutters, is choppy and cuts out! I am using a USB 3.0 cable that goes into my USB 3.0 ports on my laptop. I tried it on all ports and it does the same. I have no idea what the problem could be. Any ideas? Thanks in advance for your time.

[@artemjan5441]

Great video, subscribed! Any particular brands you would recommend for audio engineers or any brand SSD is just fine? Thanks

[@SeanDivine]

I've had good experiences with g drive!

[@shannonb.4540]

Hi Sean, really enjoyed this video, very informative. I had a question, I'm planning on buying a new iMac with a smaller internal SSD. I want to have my project audio files, music library (mp3s), and some photos and documents on a large external. Would it be ok to have all these on one external drive, or should I get two externals and separate the project audio files from the mp3s, photos, etc.? Thanks for reading.

[@SeanDivine]

Rob Bowman hi Rob, in that case 1 large external should be just fine! The main reason for the 2 externals here is just for redundancy :)

[@michaelapenteng9768]

Can you make a video on how to transfer files to the external hard drive?

[@lovemytuneskristian7751]

thanks very helpful

[@SeanDivine]

Glad it helped

[@GraDesigns]

Sean, can you do a review and tell your opinion on these Event 3-way monitors? Thanks

[@SeanDivine]

I have a video on the channel - short version, I've been mixing with Event since day 1 and they're great :) www.eventelectronics.com/artists.php

[@liadgr]

Thanks so much very useful stuff. Can you expand a bit about the clone drives ! Do you do it manually or automatically with some software?

[@SeanDivine]

I do it manually at this point. Would love to find an automatic option for this but haven't found a reliable solution at this point :/

[@syedarmaghanhassan4652]

Hi Sean, you may be using old machines, but you are a genius. Your videos are helpful. You are technically sound- I can tell with the audio and video quality of your youtube vidoes. Such a positive and polite way of explaining things. Thank you Sean. Do you have some recommendations for us about external SSD(s). Which ones to get? Kind regards, Syed

[@SeanDivine]

thanks Syed! I am using G Drives and they have been reliable with good performance

[@all-up]

Ive really been enjoying these comments & vids that are really helpful, applicable inspiring & instructive. . . Ive a bundle of worthy lyrics to re-record yet overall have a dull toned punch-less flat, more low end-ish voice that im working with, so im wondering if there is a better choice of a Rode than the NT1 or another Mic, that could trade off a little warmth (pro) yet capture a little extra presence & add a little bit of sparkle & boost a little extra oomph to the fore. At the moment i have an Audio Technica AT4033A. Are there any Micro's that y'all know of that i could consider trying out? (Using a motu ultra lite soundcard yet my cell phone recordings almost sound better).

[@SamGlasser]

Assuming a newbie has just purchased something like Studio One Pro and Native instruments Komplete, (obviously using huge sample files), how would you allocate your files between the internal disk (and its partitions) and the external drives. The idea being so the the CPU and RAM are not being overwhelmed?

[@swackymusic]

I maintain a drive for projects audio sample library backup, one usb for VST’s to not put them VST’s somewhere lost within program files, and all I want is the option to install ableton on external drives or a usb C drive for complete reliability

[@edenekendahl1791]

Hey! I saw on your website that you have a Apple MacBook Pro 14 inch 2021 (10 Core M1 Max CPU, 32 Core GPU, 64GB RAM, 2TB SSD), are you doing your music in Ableton? If you are, have you encountered any CPU issues with this computer? I can't decide if I should go with a Mac studio m1 ultra or a Macbook pro m1 max.

[@KevinKnoxx]

Where do you save your plugins?

[@GGS348]

Hi Sean, are you still doing things this way. Im very curious, because I work with alot of artists and producers and I mainly have my stuff on my desktop but when i travel, I obviously use my laptop. I have a 2tb SSD and a 5TB HDD both exeternal, I use the HDD just to backup everything but i was wondering. what would be the most efficient way to work with external drives / cloud backups / local files etc. Is it good to mainly have everything on your external drive and work from that or just locally?

[@sidtv2542]

I feel like I have no choice, but to put my stuff on external drives, since I learned quickly that 256GB SSD is certainly not enough

[@dasarimusic]

Same

[@Digitalhymnal220]

my laptop has 5400 rpm would using a external improve speed and performance on my hard drive or should I just upgrade my hard drive

[@BarbaraZorba-ps4bm]

Hi Sean, I would like to have this setup for my pc/ssd, but i'm not sure that it would work well: The Daw on my pc and the rest of the stuff like VST's, plugins, progects all on the ssd. I would appreciate your response, thx

[@kaleogebriel4592]

Do u need a laptop to have an external drive? Or can just have it to store session files

[@6Litz_]

how do you set up a clone drive? i recently had an external go down on me thats in the works of being fixed.. haha.. so you can imagine how painful that is. had the idea of getting an extra external but didnt like the idea of having back it up every single time lol

[@SeanDivine]

unfortunately I haven't found an easy solution for cloning external drives automatically. I usually backup my session files and others manually at the end of the day. that's why it's very important to keep a simple folder structure and organize your drives to make it easier to keep up with.

[@RUHDD4HVN]

Hey Sean, where/which hard drives hold the midi data. Project files drive..... Picture/Video drive........Sample Content drive.......Main o/s vst/dll drive? Just trying to picture where it all goes...... thanks if you have the time to respond to this comment bro!

[@CHASINBEATZ]

Great video, so What if you have everything installed on your internal HD, how do do you install everything on your external HD and delete the stuff on the internal HD?

[@SeanDivine]

depends on what it is... for sessions, you should just move them to the external (make sure all audio files are included). Sample libraries / software instruments it would likely be best to uninstall and reinstall the sample content to the external.

[@CHASINBEATZ]

Sean Divine Thanks bro 💯

[@dco_]

Hey Sean, finding this video years later after some tech improvements. What would you say to this now if one is using an M1 Max with a 2TB SSD internal drive, 64gb ram. Basically a maxed out macbook pro in the year 2022/2023? Just curious on your thoughts on this nowadays? Been using TG Pro and cpuinfo apps in the toolbar to help monitor, really smooth performance in Logic Pro so far using this hefty machine. Has been a great upgrade from my 2012 mac mini. Thanks!

[@SeanDivine]

Hey Drew, I currently have the M1 Max and I'm using (2) external USB 3.2 SSD GDrives (2TB). One main drive and one is a duplicate backup. seandivine.com/studio

[@perrypelican9476]

Have you ever tested the backup of your main drive with the software and plugins? You should because sometimes the way you backup will not restore smoothly on a different computer.

[@SeanDivine]

I haven't had to do a complete backup but have needed files from past time machine backups - for that, it works great. In the extreme case I had to replace the computer, I would try to replace it with the same model!

[@jeffreygrossman894]

I have a 2012 MacBook Pro , what ssd external drive / thunderbolt will work ?

[@xipluto7977]

can you save plugins on your external hard drive?

[@estevancarlos]

I feel like your advice is mostly suited when dealing with macs. You can build a PC that has RAID system that you seem to have (clones of hds). If a computer fails on a PC you can easily retrieve those HDs. However aren't there performance issues when trying to read/write to an external drive vs internal drive?

[@SeanDivine]

You can setup RAID on a mac as well... the speed / performance depends on the connection type. If you have a more modern connection like thunderbolt or even usb 3.0, external performance is solid even in demanding apps

[@RogerBenet]

Move sound libraries to an external drive it’s just for saving computer drive space or it have something with computer/DAW performance? Assuming that I have an internal 1TB SSD and I’m ok with 100, 200gb sound libraries. It’ll be better to move all these files to an external ssd ?

[@SeanDivine]

Both. It frees up your internal drive to focus on running your software.

[@SkarredKage]

Are you able to preview samples with an external hard drive?

[@alanroggero6472]

Hey Sean, do you suggest running your DAW out of an external hard drive and simply plugging it into your computer to access the software/sounds, projects etc.? I'm running Logic X and Abelton out of a 2019 macbook pro but im scared that its gonna start to get slow/take up to much space

[@SeanDivine]

The actual DAW must be on your OS drive (internal) but you can store all of the sounds, samples, sessions, etc. on an external which I highly recommend

[@yeee3663]

@@SeanDivine how many gb would omnisphere be?? Im asking because im trying to download it and its telling me i need 59 gb of space. Someone was saying the actual vst doent take that much space itself so you can download it to the internal but i dont understand.

[@D2LocTv]

How Do We Do That . Move our Music program files to to our portable hard drive. And make it work when we open files in the drive. We try it with one files . It open up a different music program

[@technodrone7723]

Great video! I like to save my music libraries, drum samples in one external and then my music projects, audio recordings in another. this way when I am recording a session, im not pulling music library samples, recorded audio and recording new audio all from one drive. Instead im pulling the music library samples from one drive and recorded audio from another.

[@SeanDivine]

Interesting! 🤔👍

[@technodrone7723]

Who knows if it actually makes a difference or not lol. Just a system I follow haha

[@ahsanalimusic]

hi Sean. ..my mac storage is almost full,so should I go for ssd, where I save my logic projects n run from ssd???actually I used external hhd n save n run my projects from that external hhd, n recently i lost all my data, these days em trying to recover my data..the expert told me drive's media is not working...thats why 1 tb hhd shows 0byte. .please suggest me, is ssd a good choice for save n run logic projects...

[@SeanDivine]

I use a sata external for sessions but an SSD would be even better in terms of speed and performance!

[@ahsanalimusic]

bro thnx for the suggestion