It’s quite possible to ruin a hard drive by dropping it. The last one I dealt with fell 3 feet onto a carpet and was toast. So don’t do that if it can be avoided.

I back mine up immediately on receipt then put it back into the box where it stays. Since I can’t download the audiophile libraries, I don’t want to depend on having only one copy in a fragile environment.

Next I install all the libraries onto a 2T SSD that I use for all of my VIs (only the libraries—the BIAB app must be installed on the boot drive, of course). It’s not intuitive but pretty easy once you figure it out. This plus my boot SSD are backed up normally in Time Machine.

NI Komplete also ships on a hard drive but I don’t make a backup since I can download everything (even if it does take over 18 hours—yikes!). I install those libraries on the same SSD as the BIAB libraries.

Last edited by Mike Halloran; 01/04/18 05:36 PM.
BIAB 2023 Audiophile, 24/60 Core M2 Mac Studio Ultra/8TB/192GB Sonoma, M1 MBAir, 2012 MBP
Digital Performer 11, LogicPro
Finale27.4, Dorico5, Encore5, SmartScorePro64, Notion6, Overture5