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@johnwade7430

3 жыл бұрын

I really enjoy your Company videos - very useful. Do you only have stores in USA? I live in the UK and CHina. Thanks

@sweetwater

3 жыл бұрын

​@@johnwade7430 Thanks, John! We are solely located in Indiana, USA. For more info, please head over to www.sweetwater.com/tour/ Thanks for the interest!

@thoroughbredtexan

2 жыл бұрын

What desk is being used in this video?

@lastspoil5547

Жыл бұрын

do you install your plugins (waves, uad, etc) on the virtual instruments drive?

@noelkinz

Жыл бұрын

Can you run Vsts on the actual external hard Drive?

Thank you! As a beginner at recording music and making videos, this video was a lot more helpful than I expected! Thank you for explaining how you use multiple drives for different purposes! Sounds like I may want to start with a RAID drive to securely archive finished projects first, then expand as needed and as my financial situation allows.

This was extremely helpful! Relevant, professional, and concise. Thanks for sharing.💯

Very clear, informative and super helpful. Thanks!

Gratitude and respect goes out to you, Sir, for sharing your recording studio expertise. Most of us wouldn't even know what questions to ask, let alone have the awareness of alternative solutions to problems we'll encounter in the future. Thanks for your helpful guidance and recommendations!

Good timing as i'm looking for this exact info. Thanks for taking the time to produce and share this!

great information Mitch thank you

Good advice thanks. Great job!!!

Long story short - SSD as working drive and HDD for backup. "I use mac mini, and there is no way to upgrade", that is funny, as well that as mac user recommended kind of non usual brands. Good overview though, I like that Sweetwater are making those king of videos.

this was great man gave me all the info i needed thank you

Excellent!! Very informative, 🙏 In fact right now I’m transferring my Hollywood strings library to SSD

Great breakdown! Very interesting

This is SOOOOO incredibly helpful. Thanks.

Excellent video!✊🏾

I have a Mac Mini. You can upgrade the drive depending on the production year. I just bought one on ebay last year and switched out the HD with a much larger capacity SSD.

I’m just in the market for a external Hard drive. Thanks for the video Mitch

@prodigalus

3 жыл бұрын

hi. it's been 4 months since this comment. curious how you upgraded? i want to upgrade from mechanical to SSD, and am wondering how much speed difference there is in internal vs external USB.

Excellent information!!!

man i came looking for a hard drive to buy and i left with everything i will ever need to know about storage in music production. love this kinda videos.

Great advice

Great information ℹ️ℹ️

Happy new year sweetwater and all. Sweetwater is the best one place for everything i need.

@petermgruhn

3 жыл бұрын

They sell ramen?

@ano5102

3 жыл бұрын

@@petermgruhn yes. Check it the website online store. Currently on discount

Mitch gallagher could tell me i need to buy a brand new computer for every single new song i want to record and i'd fuckin do it

Great Mitch!

Thank you

VERY INFORMATIVE ‼‼‼

If you have a studio as a business get a NAS (Network Attached Storage) is a peace of mind and you have total control of your stuff and you can have for example 2 drives for your work and 2 for backup and you can have access to them anywhere in the world, just need internet.

Overall a great video but you left out one very important piece. All those backup methods have one fatal flaw. They are all in the same location. Doesn't matter how much you move them around in RAIDs or other drives. They are all still located in the same location and vulnerable to theft, or other accidents. I dont bother with anything other than an online cloud backup solution. Every night a service on my computer automatically backs up my external to the cloud. Its cheap and fool proof - its a scheduled task that will always run and i can recover wherever i am.

@brushstroke3733

3 жыл бұрын

What is the price you pay for cloud storage and how much storage are you allowed at that price? I am curious if that is the solution for me as well.

@tvd1188

2 жыл бұрын

@@brushstroke3733 check backblaze, but theres many others.

@douglasgoodall3612

2 жыл бұрын

There is no cloud, only someone else's computer.

@BJ-fj6jw

5 ай бұрын

@@douglasgoodall3612 That's the thing.

Thank you.

Love sweetwater and its many teachers

Can you run Logic Pro on an external hard drive?

Interesting video - I knew all of this however. I was more interested in trying to work out the model for those large Studio Monitor shells behind you;-) Thanks for the video:-)

@davemccall9594

3 жыл бұрын

Those are Focal Trio 6 Be monitors: www.sweetwater.com/store/detail/Trio6BeR--focal-trio6-be-8-inch-powered-studio-monitor

@Mike_Spor

3 жыл бұрын

@@davemccall9594 $3000 each....faaak me. that's gotta be one hell of a sound or great marketing to successful sound engineers.

what about for just samples packs?

I also use a Mac mini for my studio, but I immediately ran out of USB ports just by plugging in my mouse and keyboard! Can you plz link to the exact hard drives you use? I also use two keyboards and they both run on usb so I already use a thunderbolt/usb extender which is only 3 ports. Any helps or tips would be appreciated thanks!

MG does the best reviews

By you saying you use one of your SSD for virtual instruments, does that mean it is efficient to run and operate 3rd party plugins through this drive?

wish you would've showed the raid drives of choice as you did the other drives

For extra protection, how about if we make copies on USB drives and store them in different locations rather than use Raid Drives? I wouldn’t trust anything on the cloud, the web etc. Any suggestions?

@PLANETWATERMELON

Жыл бұрын

I like that strategy. Multiple copies in multiple locations including cloud if you can deal with the cost.

When you say that you’re storing your virtual instruments on their own drive, are you referring to the component and the ST files that are located within the Library /Audio/Plug-ins/Components and VSTs.

@sweetwater

Жыл бұрын

Hey, Justin! Great question and thanks for your interest. Most virtual instruments will have 3 primary components: a plugin, a standalone version, and the content (the actual sound and sample files). The plugin and standalone versions can be installed on to the system drive, but the sounds/samples are what should be stored on a dedicated drive. If a drive is busy running programs and audio tracks it might not have the same bandwidth as a dedicated drive to stream the virtual instrument samples, so this can help give you efficient access and increase your overall storage capacity. I hope this helps! Feel free to reach out with any questions. Connor Smith, Sweetwater Sales Engineer, (800) 222-4700 ext. 1793, connor_smith@sweetwater.com

Glad they mention backups, but you should backup all data, not just session data. I would never call a RAID a backup. RAID systems are made for either speed of accessing data or high availability. If a drive fails in some RAID systems, you can still access the data, but not a RAID 0. Also worth looking into would be an offsite backup. I personally use Backblaze and it works pretty well.

Hi Mitch. Are you saying that you don’t use your thundrbolt/USB C for you external drives? You seem to be using USB-3 ‘s . Are they fast enough? I have a Macmini M1 too. I need my 2 thunderbolt connections for my audio interface and my screen mirroring dongle. Is it possible to use the remaining USB-3 inputs for streaming/storing logic projects, Kontact libraries and other third party samplers?

@sweetwater

2 жыл бұрын

Thanks for watching! I use both Thunderbolt and USB for drives, I’ve never had an issue with either, with libraries or tracks. USB 3 is rated at 5 gigabits per second, about 10 times faster than USB 2. Thunderbolt 2 at 20 Gbps and Thunderbolt 3 at 40 Gbps are far faster than that, of course. But I’ve found USB 3 to work very well for my needs. Hope this helps! Mitch

@CJ-uy6pw

2 жыл бұрын

Thank you Mitch from down under.this is really helpful. Do you think expanding the x2 USB 3 outs on the Macmini with a hub to add a few more ports would effect data transfer for drives? I Would like to to be able to run x2 SSD drives plus be able to plug in a USB/midi piano and maybe the odd flash drive.

When buying solid state drives, the speed listed is often not true. Most none pro drives can handle fast speeds only for a shorter time and then slows down dramatically when they start to overheat. So if you really need speed, you need to find a drive that has fast speeds and don't overheat too much and the case needs to have a fan. Some have a decent heat sink and will do OK, but a fan will be much better. There are some cases you can buy and good drives, unfortunately they aren't sold together for some reason. And if they are close to good, they are very expensive. The mechanical drives (old drive tech) is much easier to find something good. Although, may want to think of a external unit with raid type 1at least if you want to actually make sure it is somewhat safely stored since it is common enough that a single drive fails. Online storage is another good backup plan since the good ones have multiple backups. I use Office 365 One Drive and it works good for me.

@VoxTone2009

3 жыл бұрын

BTW, 560 for external SSL drives are not very fast. ~2200 for thunderbolt 3 and ~900 for USB C. These drives do overheat often and slows down if you don't buy the right ones.... Not that cheap either, but when working on Video it is much needed. Audio is usually ok with the 560 drives....

Just dropped 5k on plugins and realized I didn't get a drive 😅 smh . Ima need like at least 5TB

Interesting. This is directly related to what I do for a living. I have quite a few stories. Many involve the music business. If I'm ever hanging out at Sweetwater, I can tell you some good ones.

How often do you replace your drives? Very important question you never mentioned once.

@GeorgeAmodei21

8 ай бұрын

Just Drag you Audio File, Sound Libraries, VIds/Pics into your HHD (2) Ext. Drives so when it does fail...which it will one day you don't loose anything. I've been doing it this way for 15 yrs & have not lost a Drive but I know that day is coming :) Good Luck! George Amodei

Great info but it's very hard to find a video or even an article where someone's explaining how to use an SSD drive for booting and DAW only and using my old HDD drive for everything else. It's a 2 year old (barely ) pc and has one 2TB HDD drive. Fast for what it is, but having a smaller 500GB SSD drive for OS and Reaper will make it much faster and you can get one of the fastest SSD drives made for only $79 right now. Samsung 970 EVO PLUS. So my quest continues to find a video or article that touches on this scenario which millions must be in as well.

@brushstroke3733

3 жыл бұрын

I'm not current with what computers can do these days, so I may be wrong about this, but I don't think you'll ever be able to boot your computer from an external drive. In other words, if you're trying to run your operating system from an external drive, it may not be possible.

@bellmeisterful

3 жыл бұрын

@@brushstroke3733 Hello. Since then I learned what to do but no, nothing external. Thankfully my mothrboard has one SSD 2.0 slot so I bought a 256GB SSD, cloned my HDD to it, changed paths like Reaper song projects, music, pictures, downloads to go to the old HDD for storage and boom....$60 and it tests out way faster.

@brushstroke3733

3 жыл бұрын

@@bellmeisterful Now that's using your thinking cap! Nicely done and thank you for sharing your solution! I and others will benefit from your knowledge!

@bellmeisterful

3 жыл бұрын

@@brushstroke3733 hahaha. Sometimes I doth don the dusty old cap my dear friend

Hey Sweetwater,plz help me...if I order from India can get it

@sweetwater

3 жыл бұрын

Hello! There may be some restrictions on shipping certain gear internationally, but we'd be glad to look into it for you. When you have a moment, please give us a call at (800) 222-4700 or email us at sales@sweetwater.com. Thank you for the message!

@sunrise1295

3 жыл бұрын

@@sweetwater thanks I badly need it..no other sites deliver to India...and the product I am looking for is not even exist in ant of indian sites

Bassist: "I stack my mechanical drives on top of my 4x12 bass cab, so the speakers can energize the digital samples every time I play back!"

@brushstroke3733

3 жыл бұрын

I hope you are just poking fun at bassists here! That would not be a good idea, obviously!

@superblondeDotOrg

3 жыл бұрын

@@brushstroke3733 correct it would be a foolish idea

Buy the La Cie Thunderbolt 2 Ruggedized Hard Disk and replace the 2-1/2" HD with a 2-1/2" SSD. This is the least expensive way to upgrade your old MacBook Pro with the Thunderbolt 2 port.

@proverbalizer

2 жыл бұрын

interesting.... have you actually done it? where did you buy the ssd?

@douglasgoodall3612

2 жыл бұрын

Yes, I have had one I made this way that I have been using for two years. I can't remember whether I bought the SSD at newegg or best buy. It is just a SATA drive inside. It only took a few minutes to swap out the old HD and put in the SSD. I have been very happy I did this. It was a very good move.

clutch. fcking clutch.

Sorry but I could only handle 50 seconds of the constant zoom in/out effect before stopping the video. I know all the effects in your editing software is cool...but they should be used SPARINGLY! Did an intern edit this video?

This is a very digestible video. You squeezed quite a bit of info into a 5 minute video. I would suggest to anyone interested in using some type of RAID for redundancy to do a fair amount of research on the subject before making a purchase. There are many types of RAID and not all provide redundancy. Additionally not all drives are optimized to be part of a RAID. You can look up shingled vs non shingled in RAID for more info on that.

why not just get 1 big one?

G-Drive for QuickTime.

misleading information here, hard drives are usually much more slow and unreliable than ssd’s, especially when it comes to robust and heavy use. they’re also significantly less expensive than ssd’s in gb/$ which influenced the acronym to “redundant array of inexpensive disks”, where “inexpensive” has now been modernized to “independent”. another thing, besides in an allusion while mentioning raid 1, i don’t think i heard it mentioned that regularly backing up all important data to at least one other carrier is crucially important, unless you’re trying to restore gigabytes with tears of defeat. also drive speed matters mostly for system and application startup, when transferring large files, playback while picking out samples, or loading a project with samples which from then on are loaded to the ram and accessed from there, thus it usually doesn’t make a difference how many drives are used and how they’re sorted, which is all to personal preference. there’s a lot of information out there, i’m scratching my head as to how this got through unrevised.

@SighDown

3 жыл бұрын

Whaaa?

@petermgruhn

3 жыл бұрын

I doubt gb/$ was a concern when RAID was being rolled out. ;-)

@superblondeDotOrg

3 жыл бұрын

yes definitely a lot of "misleading information here" in YOUR OWN reply ...

@superblondeDotOrg

3 жыл бұрын

@dbilo2112 or maybe your perspective is the incorrect one.

@user_anon777

3 жыл бұрын

Hey man , I was looking for a drive to put all my sound libraries from my virtual instruments(ie:Omnisphere ,philarmonik etc...).Im planning on keeping the actual program on my main SSD but the sounds on the external. Do you think going with a LaCie HHD would introduce some latency while picking sounds or I should be good? I would buy an SSD just to stop worrying but I don't want to spent hundreds of dollars. Thank you

typical apple product- "can't be upgraded"