Avid have qualified a set of firewire drive chipsets:Īvid also recommend two manufacturers in particular Avastor HDX/SDX or OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro. Your hard drive will have a chipset this will be listed in the manual or on the manufacturers website. Firewire drives should not be used on Windows 7 machines.don’t try to record to a firewire and a SATA drive at the same time Don’t mix record/playback drive types i.e.Solid-state drives aren’t officially ‘qualified’ by Avid, but from experience they do make excellent system drives.External drives can be eSATA, USB 2.0 or Firewire (Mac only).Internal drives should be SATA (or SAS if you are using a HP Z-series PC).There are hundreds of external and internal drives available, although the majority of them will work just fine, Avid have a few recommendations (updated for PT 10). If however, you have run out of slots or you have a laptop then you should look for a quality external drive. An internal drive is likely to be faster than an external drive as it is connected straight to the motherboard. If you have space for an additional internal drive, I would opt for that. Transcend is well-known in the harddrive arena. Off the charts reading and writing speeds for this Solid State Drive (SSD). It includes a fan to keep your memory safe and equipment cool. By utilizing a separate drive for audio recording and playback, you are essentially spreading the load so you should experience fewer error messages and fewer issues with speed.Ĭheck out the 3 best hard drives for Pro Tools below:ĪVID recommends this harddrive because of its excellent features, portability, and durability. If you then burden it to also stream twenty audio tracks in real time, maybe with effects and probably with fades, the drive has to work extremely hard. Why? Your system drive has to run the operating system and any programs – in our case Pro Tools. It is recommended that you have a separate dedicated drive(s) for audio record/playback – it may seem unimportant at first, but believe me it has dramatic effects on the way Pro Tools, or any DAW for that matter performs.
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