What kind of external drive do you recomend for pro-tools.?

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2izz

firewire, or usb 2.0? or is an external hard drive even an option? and what is more compatible with pro-tools, if anyone knows of a great external HD, please let me know... thank you

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I use a OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro 500GB connected via firewire 800. You should pretty much just always use Firewire 800; 400 if you don't have an 800 port. I'm curious to see what the transfer speeds are like with USB 3.0.

I personally don't record to an external drive but almost everyone else I know does and I haven't heard of anyone having any problems. I know some people that record with a USB 2.0. Not sure what the results are. I'm guessing they're all right though as I really haven't heard complaints.

Hope this helped,
KDecka

EDIT: I did partition my system drive so that I'm not writing on the same drive that Pro Tools is on. Don't do that.

Is it safe to use my hard drive when I have a virus?

twb785

My computer is currently being attacked by Security Tools, Antivirus Vista and Your PC Protector. I'm pretty sure there's no fixing it at this point and I was going to clear the hard drive with the recovery disk. I have a lot of important work, school, picture and music files on my computer that I really don't want to lose. Would it be safe for me to get these files off my computer with my external hard drive or would the virus also infect that?

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Those are rogues and the best way to get rid of them is to use either Malwarebytes or Hitman Pro. You don't need to reinstall Windows at all. And you don't need to go into safe mode either, as one person suggested.

You should also think about installing a different antivirus and for that I would suggest Norton 2010.

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