Welcome to the forum, Jim. Thanks for your report that you can run BIAB successfully from a flash drive.

I wonder, how much of the speed increase is because it is USB 3.0? In other words, if someone had a USB 2.0 flash drive with all of BIAB running on it, would they still be pleased with the performance? I realize you can't answer that, unless you had a second flash drive, one that was USB 2.0, and tried it. But for curiosity, how long did it take you to load all the files on your 3.0 drive?

FYI, I have the BIAB program on my SSD boot drive, and of course it runs very fast from there. I suspect that's even faster than running from a 3.0 flash drive. An option in the setup is to place the program on the boot drive but the RealTracks (and RealDrums) on another drive, because they are what takes up most of the room for a full install. This is particularly true for the audiophile version that I use.


BIAB 2025 Win Audiophile. Software: Studio One 7 Pro, Swam horns, Acoustica-7, Notion 6, Song Master Pro, Win 11 Home. Hardware: Intel i9, 32 Gb; Roland Integra-7, Presonus 192 & Faderport 8, Royer 121, Adam Sub8 & Neumann 120 monitors.