Work off an External Hard Drive or Not?

Work off an External Hard Drive or Not?

First of all, it’s most common and usually best to have your audio applications installed on your internal hard drive.

With regards to where to store your audio and session files while you’re mixing, editing, etc., both internal and external hard drives will both function perfectly well.

Personally I keep all my audio and session files on an external hard drive because I believe this allows my internal hard drive to run my applications without having to simultaneously perform lots of reading/writing of audio and session data.

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  1. Personally, I put all archive and original files on an external and run Audition and session files that I am working on on my internal SSD.

    I think the speed to access an external drive is slower than an internal and as the media needs to be accessed, I’d rather keep it close whilst working on it.

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