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Mac, sounds like you are running BIAB from an external drive. Are you happy with this set-up in regards to program performance? No problems with USB ?



Program performance is virtually identical to installation of everything on my C: drive.

No problems with USB. But I am a stickler for dismounting USB drives using the "Safely Remove Hardware" icon. Every. Time.

Funny thing, everyone around me loses hard drives, seemingly continuously, and I don't. The last hard drive I had that died on me was a 20gb Western Digital back when 40gb EIDE drives were considered to be large drives. It was still under warranty and WD replaced it. That was like a decade or more ago. I do try to take good care of my drives, I do the defrag dance on them, but not too much, I don't let them bang about or fall to the floor, just reasonahble care from my point of view.

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External hard drives have dropped in price but I don't want over do it in terms of hard drive size. What size hard drive are you using? Thanks again for your quick response. If this set-up works it will be worth the wait to copy files



I have oodles of USB and FireWire drives here of all sizes. I use the USB for BiaB, works fine.

As to size, BiaB 2010 ships on a 160gb drive which is about half full when you get it. That leaves both some headroom for the programs and space for you to store songs.

At gigs I've used 160g and one 320g USB drive with BiaB, no problem. I've also tested BiaB on a 1 Terabyte USB drive, same results.

Today's drives should not be a problem provided you don't pick some bargain-basement deal. Go for one that's priced in the middle range and has a good brand name.


--Mac

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