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Originally Posted by Lagerfeldt  Unless there's some specific reasons for it I would suggest internal drives. It's usually slilghtly faster and often more reliable than any external solution, YMMV of course.
Keep your system on the first disk, libraries on a second disk, projects on a third disk.
I like to do manual backups and not rely on any automated process. I make physical copies of the most important stuff to spanned DVDs which are archived and at the same time a copy on an external hard disk, the less important stuff is only backed up on an external hard disk and most of it overwritten later.
The system disk should always be journaled of course, but depending on what DAW you're running you can disable journaling for up to 20% performance increase (via the Disk Utility). I've done this on my project disk which increased track count from around 100 to 120 tracks of separate individual stereo audio at 24bit 44.1 kHz. |
i have a similar thread.. what does disable journaling do?
I have 2 physical drives in my dual 1.8. One of the is split into 2, one for system, one for samples, the 2nd drive is split into 3, one for each genre i'm doing.. basically for all Logic projects.
Do you think having samples and OS on one drive is slowing down my read/write time for songs?
I have one song that has 84 channels of vocals.. my vocalist tracked to a 2 track stereo file.. all audio, no exs or any vsts.. all exs's and etc were disabled... but after like 16 bars, playback stops due to d i.o overload.
