ssd help

[mostapha]

Yeah. The vertex3 is a much better drive.

[brian_johnstone]

ill give it a go.. cheers again

[brian_johnstone]

sorry to be a pain but is there a way to clone my whole ssd onto the vertex and then move my apps to the octane without having to reinstall.. im new to the mac world.. (i have ccc so know that i can obviously clone the whole drive)

[mostapha]

CCC will do the cloning. So will a whole host of other tools including Disk Utility and dd, both of which come with OS X. As for the rest of it………

If the apps were all contained within their respective .app bundle, then you could just drag them onto the other drive. Unfortunately, no audio software works like that. So, you'll have to uninstall them one by one and then install them again, one by one. Still…60GB for your system and installed programs isn't that restrictive as long as you keep music and sampled instrument libraries on the external.

I typically use about 85GB of space on my laptop. More than half of it is my Music folder. Most of the rest is sampled instruments that I didn't realize were going to be that big (Xpand! and the Avid virtual piano thing that I can never remember the name of are the worst culprits).

[SirReal]

@brian_johnstone, you mentioned you have 6 GB of RAM in your MB. As far as I know Mac's need to have either 4GB or 8 GB of Ram and don't do well with six. How is your Ram split up? You need to either have 2 2GB stick or 2 4GB sticks. (Edit) Actually Macs don't do well unless the RAM is matched in both slots, so conceivably, you could have 6GB if you have 2x3GB sticks but I haven't ever seen those.

[ad357]

@brian_johnstone, you mentioned you have 6 GB of RAM in your MB. As far as I know Mac's need to have either 4GB or 8 GB of Ram and don't do well with six. How is your Ram split up? You need to either have 2 2GB stick or 2 4GB sticks. (Edit) Actually Macs don't do well unless the RAM is matched in both slots, so conceivably, you could have 6GB if you have 2x3GB sticks but I haven't ever seen those.

I don't think that's exclusive to Macs. PCs might have changed in recent years though, I don't really have much of a clue about them now but back when I had to deal with them on a daily basis I was always told that the 2 ram chips should be the same. You shouldn't use a 4gb & a 2gb chip, you should always be using 2+2 or 4+4 etc, regardless of it being a mac or not.

I don't think you get 3gb ram chips. They tend to always double in size. So you get 1gb 2gb 4gb etc. I've never seen one that hasn't been double the one below it.

[DJSigma]

When RAM is fitted in matching pairs it's because it's dual channel which doubles the available bandwidth. Fitting an unmatched pair (one faster than the other, rather than higher capacity than the other) means that the RAM's speed is limited to that of the slower stick. It really doesn't make a lot of difference to be honest.

There's also triple and quad channel RAM, where you fit 3 or 4 matching sticks. It makes a bit more difference in those cases.

[ad357]

Ah right, I get you. Basically it's a waste of the faster speed RAM because it's only going to run at the speed of the slowest chip but you'll still get the benefit of the extra GBs of RAM.

triple/quad channel - I was thinking completely about laptops, as far as I know you don't ever get more than 2 ram slots in a laptop (unless some of these mad gaming laptops have more, but I've never seen it).

[brian_johnstone]

that's what i thought.. i have a 4gb 1333 ddr3 and a 2gb 1066 ddr3, as my model of macbook only runs max 1066 anyway i didnt see it being a problem as it will run the faster 1333 at 1066 by default. but thanks for the input

[SirReal]

Actually, i saw a big dip in performance of some programs with how they use the ram. I'd suggest using matching ram and seeing if it helps with your problem. It's quick and easy to check.