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[Absolute]

BTW Im not using Raid nor sata

Considering I am using Nuendo and 2 Drives--how should I set this up

My question really is--I know I should have XP on 1 drive and Audio on the other--BUT where should I put samples like Trilogy, drums ect?

Should I have samples on one partition and the audio track files on another?..see what Im getting at?

thanks

[Charlie-O]

Me, I use a seperate partition for all my samples, 100 gigs, of a 150 gig drive. The system gets the other 50. Works really smooth and fast, defraging is much faster this way also!

[LumenStudio]

Originally posted by charlieo3601
Me, I use a seperate partition for all my samples, 100 gigs, of a 150 gig drive. The system gets the other 50. Works really smooth and fast, defraging is much faster this way also!

Just be aware that separate logical partitions do not do anything for speed. You need separate physical disks to make a difference. In your case since you share the OS and samples on the drive, it's ok (since it's not samples and audio), but ideally there should be separate physical disks for the OS, samples, and audio tracks.

But I see the guy asked using two disks, so your setup is ideal with the resources he has.


Cheers,
Lumen

[Absolute]

Originally posted by LumenStudio
but ideally there should be separate physical disks for the OS, samples, and audio tracks.


Cheers,
Lumen

Yeah, but what is the best way to set up the OS, samples, and audio tracks on 2 hard drives

[LumenStudio]

Originally posted by Absolute
Yeah, but what is the best way to set up the OS, samples, and audio tracks on 2 hard drives

I'd use charlieo3601's setup with two disks.

Disk1 - OS/Samples
Disk2 - Audio

Still I think you are better off buying a western digital 40 gig ATA 100 w/ 8 MB cache for around $60 to put your OS on.

But you'll probably be ok either way.


Cheers,
Lumen

[Leo Goler]

what LumenStudio said.

partition drive one for OS (like 20Gb or so - depending on how much software you're gonna have on there) and another partition for samples, etc.

the other one keep for projects. no need to partition.

[Charlie-O]

Dont forget to get a firewire drive for backup!

And an app to keep you up to speed. )

[Absolute]

thanks guys