BiaB performs just fine on the 5400rpm drive in my laptop.


When people try to compare specs to machines that are tasked with true multi-track recording, to include a multiple-channel sound device other than the built in soundcard and recording several different tracks or instruments to different tracks *at the same time as playing back several backing tracks* to what BiaB does, the assumption that the disk speed must be 7200 or above is erroneous anyway.


Of course, if you WANT to install a faster internal drive, that's another story altogether and would only improve overall performance most likely, but to run Band in a Box, it is not necessary at all, the 5400rpm drived, running under DMA mode, is plenty fast enough for BiaB and Realtracks, etc. if you are going to run BiaB from the provided host USB drive.

If you wanted to install everything including the Realtracks to the internal drive, and since they are the much larger in size .wav format, you like as not would need to install a higher capacity drive than stock anyway, in order to have some room on it and at that point the 7200rpm would be the way to go.



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