External Hard Drive

[DJWilson]

Hi,

Quick question to everyone who uses a laptop as part of their set-up.

Do you store and run your music off of an external hard drive or save them locally on the laptop?

[Excalibur]

Hi,

Quick question to everyone who uses a laptop as part of their set-up.

Do you store and run your music off of an external hard drive or save them locally on the laptop?

The answer to this will depend simply on the size of your collection ( in Gigabytes ) and the size of your hard drive. Until two years ago, I was external all the way. Then I bought a laptop with a 2Tb hard drive, and went internal.

I now run one internal, one external. In my humble opinion, internal is better if you can.

[yourdj]

Macbook 1 x 1tb in the main slot and 1 x 2tb in the CD drive area.
Sure you could easily get 4tb total ssd now, not looked in ages.

Most of that is not music though - thats about 50-60 gig probably in total so I could probably do my job on 250 gb HDD I would imagine??

[DazzyD]

I went from using external drives to upgrading to a souped up laptop with and 1.5Tb internal drive. My reasoning was that I felt the external drives had a weak link in the power supplies and/or casing. I'd had about 4 different external drive units but several more cases with power supply as the originals had failed. Since moving to internal I've not had any problems.

[DJWilson]

Thanks for the input!

Being internal there should be less strain on the CPU.

Time for some laptop shopping...

[yourdj]

Thanks for the input!

Being internal there should be less strain on the CPU.

Time for some laptop shopping...

I still use a 2011 MacBook, never misses a beat and only cost £400 2-3 years ago.
SSD is key and a large ram, but with Djing my CPU drain is tiny using Serato.