Specifications

Pro Tools TDM Hard Drive Minimum Requirements
To provide full 64 track, 24 bit, 48 kHz performance a TDM Pro Tools
system must include at least two hard drives, minimum, three
recommended. For 64 track sessions that have substantial edit densities
(such as one edit every third of a second across 64 voices) or large
amounts of crossfades, up to four drives may be required, allocated with
16 tracks per drive and two drives per SCSI channel. Additionally, these
drives must meet the following requirements:
Minimum Drive Requirements
● SCSI interface: Wide single-ended or low-voltage differential (LVD
or Ultra 160)
● Disk drive rotational speed: 7200 RPM or faster
● Buffer Size: 512K or larger
● Drives must be dedicated for audio (internal or external)
● Mac OS file system: HFS or HFS+. Drives should be initialized with
ATTO ExpressPro Tools v2.3.2. If using non-ATTO ExpressPro-
Tools initialized drives, click here for options.
● Windows NT file system: Fat 16, NTFS or HFS (with MacOpener
v4.1). Drives should be formatted with Windows NT Disk
Administrator.
Hard Drive Families from the following Manufacturers are
recommended:
Manufacturers Drive Families
Digidesign DigiDrive*
Avid rS, iS Plus, iS Pro
Seagate Cheetah, Barracuda
IBM Ultrastar
Western Digital Enterprise
* First generation DigiDrives are not supported in LVD mode
To check supported SCSI HBA cards for your specific computer model,