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Old 9th February 2009   #1
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HD spikes in sx3 (help)

Hello people. I asked this before but never solved anything....

Recently when working on projects with a track count of 25+ i'm gettin hard drive issues on my system. A delay in playback and the HDD meter in SX3 goes 100% and blinks red for a second whenever I hit play.

I have a 80gb program file harddrive with programs installed, and a 160gb audio files one.

Both are Seagate barracuda 7200rpm.

My audio drive has 24gb free so I doubt thats the issue.

Any ideas or checks to make? This problem is new AFAIK. I use Perfect Disk Defragmenter, no virus' and im not connected to the net.

2.13ghz intel core 2 duo
4gb ram with 3gb switch
Ati x300 radeon graphics card
asus p5b deluxe motherboard
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Hi, What's the buffer of your hard drive? What is your bit rate and sample frequency? What kind of sound card do you use? Come with some more details please!
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Delta 1010 running at 1024. 16/44

Not sure about the harddrive's buffer. Its a seagate barracuda 7200 rpm 160gb.
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Hi, What O.S are you using?
Switch to 32bits floating point! And see if that changes something.
Use (*16 bits?????!!!!!!) in a 32 bits environment.
It all works more smooth when it's all in 32 bits FP, because the whole system
works with 32bits. And your sound card on 24 bits. Record 24 bits in the 32 bits environment.
Be sure your hard drive is formatted in NTFS format.
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* Why 16bits?
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To save space for one, and also....it worked fine up untill now. And yes they are formatted to ntfs. I've googled it, seems a lot of people are having this issue
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You have too much crap on your audio drive bro, 24 gig left or not
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