Setting up live with an external harddrive. Best performance

[electrolee]

Hi Guys,

I am just about to re-setup my mac from scratch, I have a presonus firebox and an external 300gig harddrive hanging off the firebox (all firewire-400)

My Quesition is should I install live onto the External harddrive for increased performance? I already save all of my projects to the external hardrive. Or should I install it into application folder and make Ableton Lives use the external drive for its scratch area or temp files etc??

Any information on how to squeeze the best performance out of live would be great.

Regards,
Mark.

[electrolee]

BUMP!

[Onanism]

Hi Guys,

I am just about to re-setup my mac from scratch, I have a presonus firebox and an external 300gig harddrive hanging off the firebox (all firewire-400)

My Quesition is should I install live onto the External harddrive for increased performance? I already save all of my projects to the external hardrive. Or should I install it into application folder and make Ableton Lives use the external drive for its scratch area or temp files etc??

Any information on how to squeeze the best performance out of live would be great.

Regards,
Mark.

Hey mate,
I have Live 6.0.10 installed on my XP C drive, but the library and all my projects/sets/3rd party samples are installed onto my external 300gb HD so i can share between my desktop and my laptop.
Its seems to work fine, all on USB 2.0.
I have always noticed improved performance of live when the C drive is uncluttered.....it also prevents fragmenting of the C drive,at least to a very minimum which in turn will improve performance.

Cheers,
Paul