Fastest hard drive

General discussion about Gig Performer
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Hi, Ruben Valtierra with Weird Al here. Getting ready to go completely virtual on Next AL Tour. I hear that everyone here is Great and Super helpful…Can I get a concensus on the Most popular hard drive for Gig Performer on latest and fastest macbook pro? Thanks, R

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Hi @RubenValtierra,

welcome to the family

I have this:
MacBook Pro (15-inch, 2018)

And the SSD is super fast, but this is only important when you load a lot of samples within plugins like Kontakt or UVI or similar.

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@RubenValtierra ,

Welcome to GP and the group. We’re glad to have you here.

I have a MacBook Pro 2021 with M1 Pro processor and a 1 terrabyte SSD. The new M1 Pro based MacBooks have some additional loading/optimization for SSD and memory IO. It is plenty fast even when using sample libraries (like with Kontakt and UVI instruments like @pianopaul mentioned).

I hope you all make it to the Kansas City Metro area on the tour and NOT on a night I’m already playing :slight_smile:

X

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Hi @RubenValtierra, welcome to the GP community forum :wink:

With an SSD you are on the safe side with GP, especially if you are using plugins streaming played notes directly from the disk.

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