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Moving from G5 to iMac. can I use G5's internal drives
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<blockquote data-quote="rickmusik" data-source="post: 1497012" data-attributes="member: 294752"><p>Thanks for the advice, yes taking two drives out and reformatting. would be the plan ..to use as backup.What would you think is the best way to interface these to the new iMac? ..and, on the new iMac would you advise a hybrid solid state drive and a thunderbolt drive in my situation? </p><p>I'm thinking 4 drives on the new iMac...</p><p>1. solid state (if worth the extra expense) internal system drive ..</p><p>2. External Thunderbolt audio recording drive... </p><p>3. time machine drive </p><p>4. extra backup drive</p><p>3 and 4 are pirated 1 Tb drives from my Mac Pro</p><p>BTW ...On my present Mac Pro it's the CPU usage that's a problem rather than disk streaming.</p><p>One instance of a synth plugin called Zebra can take up half of the CPU meter on my present machine and I have to write tracks to audio to free up CPU power in some situations. I write library music, often to a deadline and this is a real pain .Fellow musicians with the fastest of the new iMacs tell me that this problem largely goes away!</p><p>This could end up as quite an expensive machine..I want to get it right!</p><p>Thanks again for your time and interesting comments.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="rickmusik, post: 1497012, member: 294752"] Thanks for the advice, yes taking two drives out and reformatting. would be the plan ..to use as backup.What would you think is the best way to interface these to the new iMac? ..and, on the new iMac would you advise a hybrid solid state drive and a thunderbolt drive in my situation? I'm thinking 4 drives on the new iMac... 1. solid state (if worth the extra expense) internal system drive .. 2. External Thunderbolt audio recording drive... 3. time machine drive 4. extra backup drive 3 and 4 are pirated 1 Tb drives from my Mac Pro BTW ...On my present Mac Pro it's the CPU usage that's a problem rather than disk streaming. One instance of a synth plugin called Zebra can take up half of the CPU meter on my present machine and I have to write tracks to audio to free up CPU power in some situations. I write library music, often to a deadline and this is a real pain .Fellow musicians with the fastest of the new iMacs tell me that this problem largely goes away! This could end up as quite an expensive machine..I want to get it right! Thanks again for your time and interesting comments. [/QUOTE]
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