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<blockquote data-quote="Chud" data-source="post: 1016623" data-attributes="member: 145344">You would probably want to switch around your idea there and use an internal 7200 RPM drive for audio recording, and the old drive mounted externally for everything else.&nbsp; The reason being is that the bandwidth on USB2 (and even FW) just isn't enough to support the benefits of a 7200 RPM drive for operations like audio recording that require very quick write/seek times. If you get a 7200 RPM drive you would want it to be an internal drive.&nbsp; Plenty of decent solutions out there, and the install is easy.&nbsp; Macsales offers a kit to beable to clone your old drive onto the new one before you install it, and then you can use the enclosure for your old internal drive.Don't skimp on the size if you can afford either.&nbsp; As drives record out from the center of the platter, both write and seek times slow considerably.&nbsp; I just put a 7200 RPM Seagate 500GB drive in my MBP and it boots from off to desktop up in 32 seconds.The only way I would recommend an external drive for any music applications would be if you used an external SATA drive from an express card slot, but the Macbook does not have an express card slot unfortunately.Hope that helps.</blockquote>

[QUOTE="Chud, post: 1016623, member: 145344"] You would probably want to switch around your idea there and use an internal 7200 RPM drive for audio recording, and the old drive mounted externally for everything else. The reason being is that the bandwidth on USB2 (and even FW) just isn't enough to support the benefits of a 7200 RPM drive for operations like audio recording that require very quick write/seek times. If you get a 7200 RPM drive you would want it to be an internal drive. Plenty of decent solutions out there, and the install is easy. Macsales offers a kit to beable to clone your old drive onto the new one before you install it, and then you can use the enclosure for your old internal drive. Don't skimp on the size if you can afford either. As drives record out from the center of the platter, both write and seek times slow considerably. I just put a 7200 RPM Seagate 500GB drive in my MBP and it boots from off to desktop up in 32 seconds. The only way I would recommend an external drive for any music applications would be if you used an external SATA drive from an express card slot, but the Macbook does not have an express card slot unfortunately. Hope that helps. [/QUOTE]

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