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there are 2 ways a hard drive can be used for storimng music say if your hard drive is 30 gb but you have 500 gb of music movies and software obvioulsy not gonna fit on 30 gb so that's the answer then on recording aspect i use my harddrive to run protools off of which is a recording studio and it runs so much faster and smoother :) floppies suck btw so 1980s lol

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