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Joined: 14 Feb 2006 Posts: 6494 Location: Leeds, UK
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 9:16 am Post subject: New HDD, Stuttering |
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A few days ago I got a Hitachi TravelStar 500GB 2.5" hard disk drive for my macbook.
This is supposedly a high performance drive: SATA-300 (300MB/s), 7200RPM, 16MB cache...
here is what I did:
1. put the old drive in an external USB caddy
2. put the new drive in the macbook
2. boot from the OS X Leopard CD(s)
3. 'restore' (clone) the old drive OS partition to the new drive
4. Run bootcamp
5. Install windows 7 Pro x64
Because of my windows partition, I had to get the drive. I had only given win7 30GB which was clearly not enough, and only had 20GB left on my OS X partition. I also maintain a 10GB 'transfer' partition as OS X can't see NTFS3 partitions.
After installing the drive, everything seemed great.
However, in a recording session a day later I found that the entire track would slow down for about a second, usually at a similar point.
The track is about 7 audio tracks in Cubase Studio 4. There are a lot of effects, but I found this happens even if I 'freeze' the tracks. It still happens in roughly the same place! It does happen on other projects too.
At first I did put it down to the new drive, but now I'm seeing that it is actually Cubase's 'ASIO Time' (processing power I presume) meter that is spiking, and there is no hard drive activity on the other meter at all.
A few more details:
I use an Alesis multimix12 Firewire as my recording interface and small studio mixer.
I have 4GB of RAM installed on my macbook.
I am running 10.5.8 on the OS X partition.
It is a 2008 white macbook with a 2.1Ghz Intel Core2 Duo. No DVD Writer.
Occurs regardless of whether wireless is on or off.
I'm trying to determine if I need to send the drive back (and be stuck without any space).
Any ideas?
Who should I talk to about this?
I actually work as a repairs engineer in a computer shop, but am kinda stuck for ideas at this point. I'm not that familiar about returns or getting support. _________________ Current Gear: Kronos 61, RADIAS-R, Volca Bass, ESX-1, microKorg, MS2000B, R3, Kaossilator Pro +, MiniKP, AX3000B, nanoKontrol, nanoPad MK II,
Other Mfgrs: Moog Sub37, Roland Boutique JX03, Novation MiniNova, Akai APC40, MOTU MIDI TimePiece 2, ART Pro VLA, Focusrite Saffire Pro 40.
Past Gear: Korg Karma, TR61, Poly800, EA-1, ER-1, ES-1, Kawai K1, Novation ReMote37SL, Boss GT-6B
Software: NI Komplete 10 Ultimate, Arturia V Collection, Ableton Live 9. Apple OSX El Capitan on 15" MacBook Pro |
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laughing_bear Platinum Member
Joined: 30 Jan 2002 Posts: 2970 Location: atlantic coast - northwest ireland
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Posted: Fri Jun 18, 2010 12:33 pm Post subject: |
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Hi,
as you posted this in MAC, first thing I would do is boot from your old drive and run a full Discwarrior session on the Hitachi, here in particular the hardware section, then files, and then rebuild directory.
http://www.alsoft.com/diskwarrior/
Should hardware comes out clean and after rebuilding directory structure the problems are the same, I would ask alosoft on their opinion and eventually swap the drive.
If you do not have Discwarrior and the whole seem a lot of trouble, why not swap the drive right away? The "death star" has caused me numerous problems too, I am not touching Hitachi or Seagate anymore. I stick with WD since years and so far not a single drive has given me a problem, which of course is also Luck!
P.S.
Just thinking is it only CUbase that gives you troubles, no other application? Then this might not be the drive at all..... |
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