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iPad as external storage?
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<blockquote data-quote="bobtomay" data-source="post: 1165803" data-attributes="member: 24160"><p>Yes, your computer is the repository of the music, videos, pictures, etc. on the iPad.</p><p></p><p>Don't know where you're getting this info, but someone is way off base here, and I'm on the extreme end of those that recommend maintaining a large amount of free space on system partitions.</p><p></p><p>The more data (info) on your drive does not necessarily slow anything down if you maintain an appropriate amount of free space on the drive. Having 10% or less of your system partition with music on it, is not going to affect your other apps unless you're trying to listen to them while you're recording. Maintaining a 40-50% free space on the drive - means you could store 250-300 GB of data on that drive and not see any significant slow down caused by the lack of free space.</p><p></p><p>A "busy" hard drive has nothing to do with the amount of data stored on the drive.</p><p>Data being "stored" on the drive does not cause a "busy" hard drive.</p><p>Opening and running applications cause a drive that read from and write to the disk can cause a "busy" drive. So, if you have a bunch of other applications open and running simultaneously with your recording software then you might see some issues.</p><p></p><p>Let me also say, I really like the iPad. So, I'm not trying to convince you not to get one, but the reasoning you're espousing is not really valid at all.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="bobtomay, post: 1165803, member: 24160"] Yes, your computer is the repository of the music, videos, pictures, etc. on the iPad. Don't know where you're getting this info, but someone is way off base here, and I'm on the extreme end of those that recommend maintaining a large amount of free space on system partitions. The more data (info) on your drive does not necessarily slow anything down if you maintain an appropriate amount of free space on the drive. Having 10% or less of your system partition with music on it, is not going to affect your other apps unless you're trying to listen to them while you're recording. Maintaining a 40-50% free space on the drive - means you could store 250-300 GB of data on that drive and not see any significant slow down caused by the lack of free space. A "busy" hard drive has nothing to do with the amount of data stored on the drive. Data being "stored" on the drive does not cause a "busy" hard drive. Opening and running applications cause a drive that read from and write to the disk can cause a "busy" drive. So, if you have a bunch of other applications open and running simultaneously with your recording software then you might see some issues. Let me also say, I really like the iPad. So, I'm not trying to convince you not to get one, but the reasoning you're espousing is not really valid at all. [/QUOTE]
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