[Colin Broom]

Dave, it would appear you were right. Transferred my project over to my USB 3.0 drive and haven’t had a single crash tonight (compared to one every 10-15 mins). Thanks so much.

C.

Composer

https://soundcloud.com/broomoid
https://soundcloud.com/colinbroom
https://picturesofanelectroniclife.wordpress.com/

[Colin Broom]

Thanks. I’ll get my USB 3.0 drive back tomorrow (system has them also). Will let you know.

C.

Composer

https://soundcloud.com/broomoid
https://soundcloud.com/colinbroom
https://picturesofanelectroniclife.wordpress.com/

[Colin Broom]

I’ve got a fairly new external 2TB Hard Drive that I can hopefully start using by the weekend (its out at the moment).

In terms of hardware, here’s the original info with some more detail. Let me know if I’ve missed anything:

Laptop: Dell Inspiron 17″ (7746, Early 2015),
Processr: 5th Generation Intel(R) Core(TM) i7-5500U Processor (4M Cache, up to 3.00 GHz)
RAM:16GB Dual Channel DDR3L 1600MHz (8GBx2)
Graphics: NVIDIA GeForce 845M 2GB GDDR5(Driver ver 344.32)
Hard Drive: 1TB (5400rpm) Hybrid HDD with 8GB Flash

Hard Drive Partitions and Space:

C (OS): 124GB. 60.9GB Free
G (Applications): 249GB. 233GB Free.
H (Data (incl. videos): 546 GB. 302GB Free.

Windows 8.1 (64-bit)
Sony Vegas Pro 12 (build 770)

Other significant (ie larger footprint) software installed:

Finale 2014
Cubase 7 + additional plugins
DVD Architect Pro
Microsoft Office

[Colin Broom]

AVIs and MP4s (is it bad to have more than one format in a project? This the the sort of thing I’m a bit clueless about. Audio formats yes. Video formats and codecs, not so much yet).

One hard drive but it’s partitioned three ways: OS on one, SVP on another and the videos on yet another.

C.