Appendix C. Hard Drive Configuration And Maintenance; Avoid Recording To The System Drive; Supported Drive Formats And Drive Types - DigiDesign Mbox 2 Micro Getting Started Manual

appendix c
Hard Drive Configuration and Maintenance
It is recommended that you start with a newly format-
ted 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 recommended.
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 for-
matted as NTFS only.
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 including
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 Digi-
design website (www.digidesign.com).
SCSI Hard Drives
Digidesign recommends qualified SCSI hard drives and
a qualified SCSI host bus adapter (HBA) card or (on Win-
dows systems) a qualified built-in SCSI HBA connector
on the motherboard.
For complete information on track count and the sup-
ported number and configuration of SCSI drives, visit
the Digidesign website (www.digidesign.com).
FireWire Hard Drives
Digidesign recommends qualified FireWire drives and
(on Windows systems) a qualified FireWire host adapter.
For complete information on track count and the sup-
ported number and configuration of FireWire drives,
visit the Digidesign website (www.digidesign.com).
IDE/ATA/SATA Hard Drives
A qualified internal IDE/ATA/SATA drive may be used as
a dedicated audio drive.
For complete information on track count with internal
drives, refer to the Digidesign website (www.digide-
sign.com).
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