Since VST2 plugins can be installed anywhere, you may have a preferred location that you like to use. If you are using an External Drive, make sure it’s at least USB3, with Thunderbolt or E-SATA being preferred. But, you could also use an external drive. My preference is another internal drive (SSD preferred). The secondary hard drive can be internal or external. If you are running your apps and samples on a single drive, and recording, you may have reduced performance. Each drive only has a certain amount of bandwidth. You also have to consider the load on a single hard drive. They can be 5GB, 10GB, 30GB+ each! If you ever had to re-install your OS you would be overwriting your libraries. One is that sample libraries are very large. In general, it’s a good idea to install the content to a secondary hard drive. The Content Location is your sample libraries, things like Action Strikes, Abbey Road Drummer, etc… The Applications themselves are not very large and it’s best to install them on your OS drive. You will want to leave this set to the default in most cases.
The applications are the actual programs, NOT the content or sample libraries. The Application Location is where the plugins will be installed. You can always switch it to a different location if needed. In most cases the default Download location will be fine unless your OS hard drive is low on space. If you have the download version, you will have to download everything. If you have the boxed version, most of the content will be on the hard drive, but there will probably be updates that need to be downloaded. In Preferences you have the option to select the Download Location, Application Location, Content Location, and VST Location.
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