I need more speed for work with music

Hi everyone,

I need advices about getting more speed for work with music production.
Do I have to increase the Mac speed and/or RAM?
Does a fastest hardrive help? (Internal or external?). (Sometime ago I worked with a 10,000 rpm external HD).

I'll appreciate your help. Thanx in advance.

2.3 GHz dual mac G5
2 GB SDRAM
OSX 10.4.11
Pro Tools LE 7.4/MBox2 Pro
Digital Performer 6
500 GB Lacie external HD

I'm assuming you have a PowerMac G5.

You could always upgrade the RAM, it couldn't hurt. Depending on what exact model you have, you can upgrade as far as 8 or 16 GB of RAM.

A faster hard drive could also make a big difference. Even with a fast external drive you will always be restricted by the speed of the USB or FireWire interface, so it would be a better idea to get a faster internal drive.

Depends on what monies are available. Fastest upgrade would be to a multi core Mac Pro with maxed memory.

Upgrading memory would be the cheapest way to go.

If you really want fast then yeah do what harryb2448 suggested.

2 Gig of ram is pretty pathetic for an audio workstation, bump that up first! Other than that your machine is more than fine for Pro tools work.

I'm saddly short of money. Then, I'll get more RAM by this moment, 8GB I think. Thanks a lot for your advices.

Ain't we all luis44 and good luck. Keep us posted.

up grade RAM, and it will be ok...