Terry_42, post: 18127, member: 1843 wrote: Well I am new to digital DJing, but I work with Apple Computers for about 20 years now in my daytime job.
As I am an old DJ I have a huge song collection and its about 200 gigs, since I really converted all my vinyls (yeah call me crazy). Now playing from an internal drive is really really cool, but playing and juggling songs from an external USB 2 or better will also be no problem for any Mac. However if you play small loops and samples, the latency of USB might be a showstopper for you.
Again this can easily be solved (and I suppose same goes for windows) if you use a firewire drive, as they are much lover latency in the protocol. Most HP laptops I know also have firewire ports nowadays.
If you are in for spending some real money however I just had a crazy setup for testing on my desk (sadly it was only for show and I had to give it back AAAAHHH): MacBook 15inch with internal SSD drive. – no moving parts – fast as hell, this thing can take it in your hands and shake it like a mixing bowl and it will still play your songs. And the external thunderbolt SSD we tried on it from Vestax was no slower (if not faster) than the internal SSD.
Downside… that rig costs a ton and the distributer pulled it out of my hands even when I started crying hehe
So the general approach internal is faster will go away once more companies will adopt thunderbolt devices and SSDs get cheaper. (Intel today announced a close to 50% price drop in SSDs in the coming months) In the long run I will definitely go that way.
Also, since the prices of HDDs were raised due to floodings it will eventually be a norm to have SDDs.
