USB 5400RPM External Good Enough?
USB 5400RPM External Good Enough? Posted on: 27.09.2012 by Rosita Jesch Hello,Is an external USB 5400RPM drive good enough for DJing with Traktor? Does how many cue points or any other factor effect what you would need in terms of RPM? Thanks! Fores | |
| Julian Ispas 08.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by foresdj
but you dont have to take our words for it....do a test run at home and see, im sure you gotta practice right? put all ur songs in the hard drive and bang it out for an hour or 2 at home |
| Rosita Jesch 27.09.2012 | Hello, Is an external USB 5400RPM drive good enough for DJing with Traktor? Does how many cue points or any other factor effect what you would need in terms of RPM? Thanks! Fores |
| Ileana Schieve 16.10.2012 | Simply put.. Yes. External is just storing it, your software puts it in the cache anyways |
| Nestor Epper 08.10.2012 | That should work just fine. I actually just bought one last Friday. Its 5400 RPM. I ran it through the paces and it works great. Considering the software loads it into RAM anyways it really shouldn't matter. |
| Julian Ispas 08.10.2012 |
Originally Posted by foresdj
but you dont have to take our words for it....do a test run at home and see, im sure you gotta practice right? put all ur songs in the hard drive and bang it out for an hour or 2 at home |
| Addie Engbrecht 27.09.2012 | If you load everything from your track collection list then it should be no problem. If you load stuff from seperate folders off your HDD , then that could be painfully slow to get track info like BPM to show up on your playlist. |
| Nedra Fresneda 27.09.2012 | Traktor loads your tracks into the RAM when you put them on a deck, the HDD speed is irrelevant. |
| Celine Surico 27.09.2012 | I doubt someone needs a faster (7200RPM/SSD) drive for DJ:ing as we are talking about max four tracks streaming, typically two. Not all laptops have USB 3.0 yet so USB 2.0 is a must. Get a new drive, most of the new ones, even cheap ones, are pretty fast. PS: Of course if you want to play 32 samples at the same time from the drive, that might push performance-wise. I would keep any samples on the main drive, anyway. |
| Addie Engbrecht 27.09.2012 | 5400 RPM is a typical internal HDD. It's basically the slowest of internal HDD out there, but most laptops have one, some may have a 7200. I'm no computer expert, but I believe in this situation the bottleneck would be the fact it's USB. USB 3.0 will be faster than 2.0, but the best would be a ESATA connection if your laptop has one (not typical). WIth that being said, shouldnt really be a big issue |
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