Now that you have an understanding of the benefits of using a dedicated external sample hard drive, let me show you step by step how to move the Logic Pro X sample libraries to an external hard drive using Folder Aliases inside of OS X. Tip: While creating multiple partitions on a single physical hard drive is good for organizational purposes, the limitations of a single physical hard drive are still present, and therefore you do not gain the same benefits as you do with two physical hard drives. Your main hard drive that is running your computer based music creation software is able to write and perform all the tasks needed for the software to run smoothly, while the external sample hard drive is able to simultaneously read the samples from the disk. However, when the hard drive is attempting to read a large file, or multiple large files, such as when loading a sample based instrument, the physical limitations of the hard drive begin to be noticeable as the drive has to momentarily stop writing, so it can read the large file.īy storing your sample based libraries on an external hard drive, you’re not only dividing up the workload between two physical drives, but you’re actually allowing both drives to perform together the read and write tasks simultaneously something a single hard drive physically cannot do. For most day today computer use this is really a non-issue. Traditional disk drives can read or write data to or from the disk, and while it preforms these actions several times a second, they technically cannot both read and write at the same time. Logic Pro X ships with over 30 GB of additional sound contentīeing able to store the additional sound content that is available for download on an external hard drive will help you keep your system hard drive free for other programs and storage needs, while still allowing you to use Logic Pro X to it's fullest by having access to all the available content that you have purchased. The large amount of additional sound content may be problematic for mobile producers who wish to install Logic Pro X on a laptop computer with a smaller hard drive capacity. While solid state hard drives are becoming more popular, especially with the creative crowd such as musicians and producers, the size to cost ratio is still pretty wide and therefor many people are still opting for smaller storage capacities. While this is not a major issue for desktop based computers because of the traditionally larger hard drives that are installed, the large amount of additional sound content may be problematic for mobile producers who wish to install Logic Pro X on a laptop computer with a smaller hard drive capacity. Logic Pro X ships with over 30 GB of sound content including Apple Loops, samples, and virtual instrument sample libraries. Why Use a Dedicated Sample Hard Drive Save Storage Space

How and Why to Move Your Logic Pro X Sound Libraries to an External Drive

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