I just picked up my imac waiting delivery. gone from PC and made the scarey transition.

Is there anything I can do to improve its performance?

Its comes with the 4GB of ram it has a 640gb HD, so thinkn an external drive sooner then later! will be running logic as well

any pointers appreciated

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its good as it is. ur gonna use Logic? u think u need more than 650GB? damn. btw get an external disks for timemachine backup (automatic). its great to have if anything crashes.

Get a copy of DiskWarrior and make sure to run it weekly.
Partition the HD is always a huge plus.


Hope it helps

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Originally posted by Alekos Get a copy of DiskWarrior and make sure to run it weekly. Partition the HD is always a huge plus. Hope it helps Welcome to the world of Mac! You are gonna love it

Congrats Energy - you've made the right choice. You really don;t need to do anything. Just run repair disk permissions after you've installed everything then about once every couple of months after that. That's it.
Get a nice external drive but do research on it first - I made the mistake of buying a seagate freeagent pro which goes to sleep every five mins (spins down) and there's fuck all I can do about it.


Alekos - I really don;t think you need to run disk warrior every week and my take (maybe outdated now) that partitions are a bad idea for audio useage as the disk could have to search two places at once, therefore slowing performance. With external drives being so cheap there's no need to partition anymore.

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Congrats Energy - you've made the right choice. You really don;t need to do anything. Just run repair disk permissions after you've installed everything then about once every couple of months after that. That's it.

thanks, im looking forward to it!

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Get a nice external drive but do research on it first - I made the mistake of buying a seagate freeagent pro which goes to sleep every five mins (spins down) and there's fuck all I can do about it.

can you suggest one that would be worth while investing in, as im aware that the 650GB is not alot so external is def something i need.

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Alekos - I really don't think you need to run disk warrior every week and my take (maybe outdated now) that partitions are a bad idea for audio useage as the disk could have to search two places at once, therefore slowing performance. With external drives being so cheap there's no need to partition anymore.

I have heard of this as well though not completely familiar with it. hence why i think some people opt for more then one hard drive, so one has OS etc and the other purely for samples. But i would love to know more about the best way to set it up so perfomance isn't limited due to where I save a song or where the samples are saved and pulled from to play the song.

thanks heaps for the info though

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Originally posted by DJ RANN Get a nice external drive but do research on it first - I made the mistake of buying a seagate freeagent pro which goes to sleep every five mins (spins down) and there's fuck all I can do about it.

I have had the best luck with drives from LaCie. They seem to be the most reliable external drives I have had experience with. I just had my second external drive die. The first was a Western Digital and the second was a Seagate MyBook. Both died within a year. I was using it to backup my RAID file server and it just died. Surprising because Western Digital are very reliable internal drives.

I'm looking at picking up a LaCie Quadra 2 RAID external disk to replace it. 2-disk RAID mirror with user-replaceable drives for around $300. Nice. Backup your backups, and always keep multiple copies of valuable data around, just in case.

External drives are less reliable than their internal counterparts as a general rule, so try not to move it around or bump it too much.

Also, consider getting more than one external drive and use one of them for Mac OS X Time Machine to automate regular backups. It has saved many a person in the past (although I am fortunate enough not to need it so far, knock on wood).

Totally agree - we only use LaCie at work and rotate around 40 of them for various projects.

Only go harware raid - software raid isnt worth anything.

I also think backing up to a removable medium such as tape, or CDR or DVD is important, at least for the most important files.

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Originally posted by DJ RANN I also think backing up to a removable medium such as tape, or CDR or DVD is important, at least for the most important files.

Yeah, I considered that, but CD/DVD is too low capacity. I'd love to get a Quantum DLT, but its like $1,000.

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Originally posted by Eric J Yeah, I considered that, but CD/DVD is too low capacity. I'd love to get a Quantum DLT, but its like $1,000.

Thats what we use - aint cheap buts it's good.

Blueray should soon be a viable option though.

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Also, consider getting more than one external drive and use one of them for Mac OS X Time Machine to automate regular backups. It has saved many a person in the past (although I am fortunate enough not to need it so far, knock on wood).

I have never really got into the whole multiple HD thing, until reading about it. so what you mean is that I run an external drive for the OS is that correct and time machine???

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thanks heaps for the info again guys appreciate it mucho

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i got a Western digital 1 TB external. it doesnt cooperate with time machine.. but thats alrite because its got a program that comes with it that does EXACTLY the same. as soon as you savea project or anything this thing copies it to the WD hardrive.

im slowly transferring ALL of my music as in songs from other artists not my own ones to it..
and only keep the essentials on the actual computuer.
its slowly making it faster haha

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