António Florença

I have recently acquired a brand new OWC external SSD drive, and I'm trying to figure out what apps I should put on it or not. So, here's the question:

Are there any significant gains in migrating my copy of Max 8 from my native HD to the external SSD drive? Or would just storing my Max/MSP projects on the external SSD drive be better? I'm on a 64GB RAM, late 2015 iMac, running macOS 10.14.5 (I might upgrade to 10.14.6, but not Catalina though.)

Any hints or insights on this issue would be much appreciated.

I  have recently acquired a brand new OWC external SSD drive, and I'm  trying to figure out what apps I should put on it or not. So, here's the question:

Are  there any significant gains in migrating my copy of Max 8 from my native HD to the external  SSD drive? Or would just storing my Max/MSP projects on the external SSD drive be better? I'm on a 64GB RAM, late 2015 iMac, running macOS 10.14.5 (I might upgrade to 10.14.6, but not Catalina  though.)

Hi,
I  have recently acquired a brand new OWC external SSD drive, and I'm  trying to figure out what apps I should put on it or not. So, her

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just putting apps on SSD does not speed anything up.

Where apps execute stuff, read/write files, cache etc

just putting apps on SSD does not speed anything up.
Where apps execute stuff, read/write files, cache etc
is what counts.


starting and running your os from ssd is what really saves you lifetime. but with an external drive i don't know. maybe resources like audio files, vst data,...

Thanks for the input. I'll migrate my Max/MSP workspace incrementally, as I feel the need for it. My system already runs Max smoothly, so I'll start just by migrating packages and externals as well as the most processing-intensive patches, and see how it goes...

Just wanna add that you can make hardlinks (on windows it's mklink.exe, on Mac don't know) to simply move and refer complete folders to/from external drive. Things like your VST folder for example, where you can't simply reinstall everything to a new location.

Just wanna add that you can make hardlinks (on windows it's mklink.exe, on Mac don't know) to simply move and refer complete folders to/from external drive. Things like your VST folder for example, where you can't simply reinstall everything to a new location.
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