Anyone build a hackintosh for music related stuff?

[Xonetacular]

Only component I'm not really sure of is which SSD since I have a lot of regular HDDs sitting around. They are pretty expensive and I would want at least 240gb and I have no idea the difference between them.

[MiL0]

just get a 64/128gb SSD for the OS and a regular HDD for your storage

[Xonetacular]

Hmm maybe I could get by with a 120. I just want to have enough room to save all my projects, samples, and lots of apps.

[rgtb]

And that highlights the reason why all the Moderators have warned people that Hackintosh talk is bad news for DJTT.

Just musing about it is one thing but getting further into it simply means trouble for Ean and DJTT.

i don't know if that's true. what i do know for a fact is that many, many us-based forums disallow discussion of hackintosh. i also know wired took down a hackintosh how-to after receiving a complaint from apple.

i wanna clarify that i'm neither american nor a lawyer. so the initial statement i made was by no means supposed to be the opinion of an expert. i was basically saying what i remembered from the IT press from a few years back.

i did a bit of reading on wikipedia and elsewhere and it seems psystar (which built hackintoshs) was found guilty of violating Apple's copyright and of the DMCA. it seems apple employs technical protection measures to prevent people from installing os x on non-apple branded hardware. circumventing those measures might violate that DMCA.

[Toast]

Prystar is very different.
They were selling "non apple branded" machines with OSX in it. This is clearly in violation of Apple's EULA.

[Xonetacular]

it seems psystar (which built hackintoshs) was found guilty of violating Apple's copyright and of the DMCA. it seems apple employs technical protection measures to prevent people from installing os x on non-apple branded hardware. circumventing those measures might violate that DMCA.

It doesn't violate the DMCA- it's a civil thing, see milo's post about it. Apple sued a company that was mass producing pre-built hackinotshes with osx already installed on them and the company drowned in legal fees.


http://quocomputer.com/ on the other hand is alive and strong and lets you put on whatever you want.

[mostapha]

Hmm maybe I could get by with a 120. I just want to have enough room to save all my projects, samples, and lots of apps.

You don't really need to stream audio off of a hard drive…you don't even really need to record to SSDs. Normal hard drives over Firewire or any internal bus will track full bands at once, so anything an EDM producer would do won't tax them at all.

They do make a huge difference for loading times, but the biggest difference is still where you store apps and the OS.

And my 120GB drive still works fine for me. Just keep an archive of stuff you're not working on…and leave that on another drive. Might be a bit of an issue if you have a lot of huge sample libraries…but really, the projects aren't that huge.

About SSDs…owc sells some good ones. The Mercury Extreme Pro 6Gs are awesome if you have a full 6Gb/s SATA3 bus. You don't need to care about trim or any of that other bullshit.

[Toast]

Major curiosity about this Quo thing...
Anyone ever use one or have one?

[Xonetacular]

I more want space to keep projects and important data on a SSD for security not just for performance. I've had hard drives die and even with regularly backing up it is just peace of mind having it on an SSD.

[Afterhour Ali]

My Corsair Force F120 works very good with OSX Lion. So should any other SSD.

You just have to install the Trim Enabler to have the TRIM-command working.