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appendix c
Hard Drive Configuration and Maintenance
It is recommended that you start with a newly
formatted external or secondary internal audio
drive. You should also periodically defragment
your audio drive to ensure continued system
performance.
Always back up any important data on
your drive before formatting it, as it will
erase all data on the drive.
Avoid Recording to the
System Drive
Recording to your system drive is not recom-
mended. Recording and playback on a system
drive may result in lower track counts or fewer
plug-ins.
Supported Drive Formats and
Drive Types
Drive Formats
Windows Windows XP systems should use drives
formatted as NTFS or FAT32 (NTFS preferred).
Windows systems can also support Mac
drives formatted with HFS+ system (also
commonly referred to as Mac OS Extended).
A third party application (such as
MacDrive) is needed to mount Mac-based
HFS+ drives on a Windows-based Pro Tools
system. Refer to the Pro Tools Reference
Guide for more information.
Mac Mac systems should use drives formatted
with HFS or HFS+ file system only.
HFS drives are supported as Transfer drives
only.
Hard drive performance depends on factors in-
cluding system configuration, number of tracks,
session sample rate, density of edits, and the use
of crossfades and other processes such as Beat
Detective in a session.
For complete hard drive requirements, see the
Digidesign website (www.digidesign.com).
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