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I usually run BiaB from an external HD on my MacBook Air. I found I had a 256GB PNY SDXC card left over from some old audio equipment and wondered if it would be fast enough to run BiaB.
I was expecting the SD card to be too slow to run well, but hey I had some time to kill so gave it a try.
The simple answer is YES it is fast enough. I installed 2019 UltraPak, along with all Xtra styles packs 1 - 8, loops style Pak 1 and a few extras that came with the upgrade. The SD card runs as far as I can tell as quickly as an external HD does. Loads pretty much as fast as far as I can tell. This is great because I no longer need to carry the HD drive with me when I leave the house.
Anyone that Knows Apple gear will know that the Air does not have an SD card slot. I use a Vanmass 7 port hub that plugs in to the two USB C ports.
As I said it was an experiment, but there may be other users out there who might like to give it a try on their own laptops. If I hit any snags I will amend this post later on.
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Not a Mac here. But a full fledged installation of Band in a Box runs perfectly smooth from a 400 GB SD card within a Windows 10 Surface pro here.
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Since it can run from a mechanical hard drive, it probably will work. Different SDXD media are rated at varying speeds. A SATA III SSD in a USB3 dock is a lot faster.
There is an issue switching the pointers in BIAB to your Real Tracks and Drums libraries in 64 bit and it has not been fixed. Unless in Catalina, fire up the 32 bit version, switch the pointers, Save and then quit. The 64 bit version will read the Preferences change and behave.
BIAB 2023 Audiophile, 24/60 Core M2 Mac Studio Ultra/8TB/192GB Sonoma, M1 MBAir, 2012 MBP
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Further to the experiment with the SD card I can say there have been no problems at all. I just cloned the data from my external HD so there have been no issues with switching pointers that Mike mentioned. I cannot see that it is any slower than a mechanical HD either. So with those results I decided to try it on a USB memory stick to see how that worked. Again it works fine, no issues and the speed is pretty much the same as far as I can tell without using a stopwatch. The stick I used is a SanDisk Ultra Fit USB 3.1 Flash Drive 256GB. It is a tiny device and not likely to be damaged when plugged in to a laptop. https://www.amazon.co.uk/gp/product/B07857Y17V/ref=ppx_yo_dt_b_asin_title_o00_s00?ie=UTF8&psc=1
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I just cloned the data from my external HD so there have been no issues with switching pointers that Mike mentioned. Did you install the app onto your system drive or are you runnung everything from the external drive? You may not have encountered the scenario I described. I cannot see that it is any slower than a mechanical HD either. The stick I used is a SanDisk Ultra Fit USB 3.1 Flash Drive 256GB. That's only 12x faster or more than the mechanical HDD so, yea...
Last edited by Mike Halloran; 12/20/19 07:36 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
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I installed the app on the SD and USB stick, so only the plugins etc are on the SSD/HD.
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I installed the app on the SD and USB stick, so only the plugins etc are on the SSD/HD. Ok, I don't know if you understand my issue or not but it doesn't matter. You cannot have encountered it.
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Digital Performer 11, LogicPro
Finale27.4, Dorico5, Encore5, SmartScorePro64, Notion6, Overture5
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