There was a thread some time back in which the issue of running BB from a USB stick was raised, Peter Gannon himself posted something to the effect that the good folks up at pgmusic had been looking into USB stick as an alternative to the shipped hard drive and had come to the conclusion that, while it can work, there really needs to be a bit more development in those things before the company would take the plunge.

But he did also state that bb could be run from the stick, so.

I'd be concerned with two major issues, the first being that the speed of things happening would very likely be a tad slower than the speed obtained using the hard drive. I would suspect from just looking at the specs, that the stick would deliver slower RealTrack loading times, for one example. How much slower would really have to be empirically tested, though. The other concern I would have is the fact that BB by nature must do a lot of Writing to disk, for example, any time you Freeze and Save, or just plain do a Save, or record Audio Track, and then there's that ever-present issue in which BB must Write to disk every time you close the program, updating the "intrface.bbw" file and a few others sometimes, again, there may be a speed hit there using the stick.

But I do encourage those who have the time and curiosity to experiment with use of the stick.

Maybe not a great idea for the noob to the program, though, there are enough things to learn how to accomplish in the first place, many of which there would be no way to know if a certain problem happened to you due to use of the stick, or for some other reason.

And - for BB2014, I would be greatly concerned that 64g is just not enough headroom.


--Mac