will putting lots of music on my macbook's hard drive affect its performance?

GrungeMonkey · Feb 15, 2008

answer me this!

please.

thankyou.

eric · Feb 15, 2008

what's your definition of "lots"?

GrungeMonkey · Feb 15, 2008

well i would say less than 30 gb

its probably not that much

but i really know nothing about computers!

elma · Feb 15, 2008

What do you mean by lots?
If you mean fill the hard drive full then yes it will affect the performance.
I haven't had a Mac long enough to fill a HD yet so I can only say that from reading the forum it seems that you can fill you're HD to about 80% without performance dropping.
Personally I keep mine on an external HD and keep about 10 albums on my macbook which I change when I get bored of them.

eric · Feb 15, 2008

30Gb, no, not much at all. unless, it fills the last of your free space.

how big is your drive, and how much space will be left?

GrungeMonkey · Feb 15, 2008

its the basic macbook, i think its 80gb of hard drive?

its quite odd that my ipod has the same amount of storage space as my laptop!

eric · Feb 15, 2008

well as long as you don't end up with less than 2 or 3 gigs of free space you shouldn't really see any sort of slowdown.

itunes might slow down as you add music to it, but i can't say for sure since i only add songs temporarily to play them.

GrungeMonkey · Feb 15, 2008

ok then

thanks for your help!

Weird Fish · Feb 16, 2008

elma said:
What do you mean by lots?
If you mean fill the hard drive full then yes it will affect the performance.
I haven't had a Mac long enough to fill a HD yet so I can only say that from reading the forum it seems that you can fill you're HD to about 80% without performance dropping.
Personally I keep mine on an external HD and keep about 10 albums on my macbook which I change when I get bored of them.

How do you move them back and forth without confusing iTunes? This concept intrigues me.