Pro Tools 10 Hard Drive Requirements
Avid-approved Audio Hard Disk Drives for Pro Tools 10 Systems
The following disk drives have been tested and approved by Avid for use with Pro Tools HD 10.0 and Pro Tools 10.0 as Audio Record and Playback drives. Drive speed of 7200rpm or higher required.
Internal Drives
- SATA
- SAS (with HP Z-series computers ONLY)
- SSD (Solid State Drives)*
External Drives
( Avastor HDX/SDX or OWC Mercury Elite-AL Pro™ drives recommended for best performance )
- eSATA
- USB 2.0**
- Thunderbolt**
-
FireWire (Mac Only) with FireWire interface using these chipsets:
- Oxford 934 - FW 400
- Oxford 924 - FW 400
- Oxford 924 - FW 800
- Oxford 911 - FW 400
- Oxford 912 - FW 400
- Oxford 912 - FW 800
Warning:
- FireWire (1394) connection of audio record/playback drives should not be used on Windows 7 machines.
- Many of the drive enclosures using the Oxford chipsets listed above include USB and FireWire connections. Please use the USB 2.0 connection for these drives on Windows 7 systems.
Notes:
- There are no performance guarantees for FireWire drives. Performance will degrade if more than 4 FireWire drives are chained together.
- Mixing Firewire 800 and 400 drives on the same bus may cause performance issues.
- For best performance, we suggest that you do not mix record/playback drives of different types. For example, you should not record to an internal SATA drive and an external FireWire drive at the same time.
- *Solid State Drives (SSDs) have been tested and are qualified for use with Pro Tools 10, either as system or audio drives.
- **With Pro Tools 10 Avid announces support of USB and Thunderbolt hard drives (Mac only). Avid recommends drive speeds of 7200rpm or higher. For HD and Complete Production Toolkit systems allocating more Ram in Set Ups > Playback Engine > Disk Playback > Cache size can increase drive performance.
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