I currently host all of my sample libraries on my Hard Drive and thinking of switching and hosting them on an external drive. Does it actually make that much of a difference on your CPU or is it hardly noticeable and not really worth doing?
Running a 2.7 Ghz Intel Core i5
External HD Sample Hosting
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Re: External HD Sample Hosting
Won't make much (if any) difference on the CPU hit. Having separate drives simply allows the drives to work less hard and removes a potential data delivery bottleneck. To really pep things up from a user experience perspective consider an SSD for your boot/application drive. Anything you put on SSD gets delivered FAST.