Portable Harddrive help

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Portable Harddrive help

ok so my computer is about to explode at the seams if i put any more music on there, but i bought a porable harddrive awhile back, ive heard of some DJ’s putting all their music on one and just hooking it up when they need to use it…if so how do i do that? :stuck_out_tongue:

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Really?

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I use mine as a backup only because it does add some latency when loading a track and I find it sometimes causes hiccups when loading form an external.

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yes really, got any suggestions or do ya just wanna stfu? :smiley:

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do you just copy it over to the harddrive then it works? or is there a trick? sorry if this is a basic question, im not a harddrive expert :stuck_out_tongue:

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i certainly wouldn’t dj from an external harddrive due to slower load times etc as already said - but i do use an external hdd to backup all my purchases on.

i use something called “rsync” to sync my backup drives and also to backup all my stuff to a server on the interweb - but i’m sure there’s plenty of free/handy win/osx apps out there that would do the same thing.

manually copying isn’t ideal as u only ever want to copy whats changed ofc.

i also don’t keep all that many tunes on my laptop - some people seem to have mahoosive collections - but i can’t believe having so many on tap is a good thing - u wouldn’t play them all and makes finding the ones u really want harder.

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i used to use an external however in one venue that i play the booth is so close to the bass bins that the vibrations were causing me issues where the drive would disconnect, i remedied this by replacing my dvd drive with a caddy and putting my external inside my laptop as a second internal, with the sata connection being faster than usb, and with the laptop sitting on foam when i play i now have no issues at all. i got the caddy from ebay Pardon our interruption...

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Well it’s a pretty stupid question - how do I use an external hard drive
Do you know what an amplifier is by any chance?

I’ll stfu :roll_eyes:

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ok cool thanks Nick. and thanks for the advice guys . Im just gonna shorten my library down. :smiley:

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What if you had an external ssd? Would that be much better?

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the latency is to do with the usb connection - but ofc ssd over usb2 would be faster than sata or pata over usb2. kind of a waste tho… and still not as fast as a direct/internal sata or pata connected drive. i have no real clue about usb3…