Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

On Thu, 1 Jan 2009 12:42:16 -0800 (PST), Stephen Klugh wrote:
> Happy New Year to everyone,
> 
> I have an Imac Intel. I have roughly about 70GB left on the hard 
> drive. I currently have Live, Logic Express v7, and Reason on the 
> current system. I save my music on the external hard drive. I 
> uploaded a lot of my old cds, some movies, and videos to Itunes so 
> that I could put them on my Ipod. I'm assuming that the Itunes 
> library is what is taking the most spcace on my hard drive.  I'm 
> looking at upgrading to Logic Studio.  I was wondering if anyone had 
> any ideas on how I could free up more space on my hard drive so that 
> I would use majority of the space that is left on the upgrade. I have 
> an 1TB external hard drive. Any advice would be greatly appreciated. 

I use a Mac Mini as a server, not for music, but the same applies.

I have the external as the boot drive (since the internal is a portable
drive and has rather bad performance and shortened life time since it is
not a constant on rated device).

I use the internal for backups of crucial data, but mainly unused.

You might consider this scenario.

I think trimming the Mini's internal drive is a losing proposition
since as the system it will always be growing and fluctuating in some
way.

The other alternative is to change the internal drive to a new 500GB
drive and install the OS and logic on that.  That is the kind of drive
I have in my portable and they are really quite nice (and I run Logic 
on it
when I am out and about).

Changing the internal drive of a Mac Mini is kind of challenging
but armed with good internet explanations and a good putty knife
it is doable.

Good luck.


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