I guess for some reason i always assumed when the internal drive on the MBP is called Macintosh HD i thought the HD stood for Hard drive. I had no idea the internal drive on my MBP mid 2015 was a SSD.

Like a USB C to a USB adapter? OR a thunderbolt 3 to thunderbolt 2 adapter? Would i need to get any new adapters for my mac to connect the SSD drive? Would any of them be compatible with my macbook and would i get optimal speed and performance from the SSD drive? (very confused about all the connections and how they apply to my mac) I know a lot of the newer SSD drives use USB 3.1 gen 2 or USB C and thunderbolt 3. What kind of SSD drive should i get to get better performance on my mac? Here are the specs for the entire macbook: * Two Thunderbolt 2 ports (up to 20 Gbps) Will going with solution 2 & 3 optimize the music production performance a lot? Number two definitely sounds like the easiest solution, and im thinking about combining number 2 and 3. Storing all my instruments and sound libraries on the drive Keeping all my LPX projects and audio files on a separate SSD drive.ģ.

Running my OS on the SSD drive instead of my internal driveĢ. I`ve been reading about the benefits about optimizing your macbook pro with a SSD drive for different purposes.ġ. The plugins, the DAW, all audio files, the operation system, Logic Pro X and so on. Right now i dont have a hard drive and everything is running on my macbooks internal hard drive. Granted i'm using a ton of plugins at this point in the mixing stage. My buffer size is all the way up and its still crashing at this point. I`ve been thinking about optimizing my Macbook Pro mid 2015 for music production as i have been running into CPU overloads lately when mixing.

Macbook pro 2015 external hard drive