[FX.php List] Folder path?

[Bob Patin]

I have to question the access speed though; I use Digidesign ProTools  
all the time, which is the most predominant digital audio recording  
software in the world. In my studio, and in most of those that I see,  
we use external Firewire and USB-2 drives, without any trouble; it's  
accessing the drive far more often than FMSA does, and has no  
problems with external drives.

I tend to believe that the problem with using an external drive has  
something to do with security restrictions imposed by OS X this in  
this most recent security update, because that's when the ability to  
use an external drive seems to have been prevented.

I also agree that the speed difference between a slower Mac Mini's  
internal HD and an external 7200 RPM USB-2 might be negligible, but  
now we'll never know... :)

Interesting discussion though!

On Apr 23, 2007, at 1:29 AM, Kevin Futter wrote:

> On 23/4/07 4:05 PM, "Edward L. Ford" <elford at cs.bu.edu> wrote:
>
>> I don't have direct access to a FM Server or a reason to  
>> investigate this for my own needs, but I'd thought I'd provide  
>> some of the thoughts I had about this subject:
>>
>> While not being able to specify where FMSA stores its db files  
>> seems odd, maybe it is FMIs choice to limit where the files are  
>> stored for database integrity reasons, as someone else already  
>> stated.
>>
>>
> It’s not that you can’t tell FMSA where you want to store your  
> files – you can – it’s just that it appears it has to be on an  
> internal drive, not a removable one. I do agree with the stated  
> reasoning for this though. We have FMSA installed on the boot  
> volume along with the OS, the databases stored on a second internal  
> drive, and their backups on a third. I believe you point your  
> backups happily at a removable drive though.
>
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