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Soul Kontakt
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Posted : Jan 24, 2006 01:43
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Hi there, i would like to know if to partition the hardisk is better than having one whole? I was told that the best would be to have a harddisk parttion one for the windows inst., 1 for the programs, and an external one for the audio, is this wright?
what your opinion?
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Posted : Jan 24, 2006 02:38
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Digital Psyence
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Posted : Jan 24, 2006 03:16
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What about software? should sequencer, plugins etc. be on system disk or audio disk? |
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Posted : Jan 24, 2006 09:21
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well maybe that way Aeon says provides better performance but..
i ll also recomment the backup usage.
I have 80gb hard disc partitioned only for for the System(windows,music progz,vst) ,
A segate 160 gb partitioned to 3.
One for my tracks,one for samples and one for my ghost back up.(recommended)
I ve just bought a maxtor hd 250gb(16 mb cash;) seperated to 2 partitions for installing my audio and vst sample banks.
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Adrenal Mode
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Posted : Jan 24, 2006 13:32
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Soul Kontakt-if you have one HD so you must split it, one partition for system and one for your project's,sample's,music...
i'm useing 3 HD
1 WD 160 SATA2 HD for system
2 WD80 SATA1 HD conected as Raid for my project's and sample's
its very import that your projects will be on a different HD or partition coz if your system partition fail so you have your project's saved on the secand HD or partition.
one partition is more faster than 2 or 3 but again its not very good to your project's and..... |
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Psicho
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Posted : Jan 24, 2006 17:35
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Adrenal Mode
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Posted : Jan 24, 2006 18:30
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its all depend, if you need it for music so split your HD to 2 coz internal HD is much more faster than external HD.
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Soul Kontakt
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Posted : Jan 24, 2006 20:44
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Adrenal Mode
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Posted : Jan 25, 2006 12:24
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it means that ALL your progrems need to be installed on the system partition |
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sideFXed
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Posted : Jan 25, 2006 12:42
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if you got enough space and a second harddrive (second physical hard drive) make a partition and assign the virtual memory (swap file of windows) to that partition. Defrag often and your computer should run faster when you're out of RAM.
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Adrenal Mode
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Posted : Jan 25, 2006 13:13
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yep, its very impport that you Defragment your system partition often
dont Defragment your drive with the windows tools (non effective at all)
if you want faster performance, use Professional tools
I'm useing O&O tools
http://www.oo-software.com/en/
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DJ Kontakt
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Posted : Jan 27, 2006 08:31
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Aeon is correct. Do it that way and you will be better off.
Never have one massive partition of everything
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Aviad
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Posted : Jan 27, 2006 15:24
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Partitioning hard drives won't give you more performance as Aeon said, but it would make defragment faster. For example you have three partitions. System | Projects | Samples. You can defragment system and samples partition only once, althought to defragment projects partition all the way since you always store and delete data from it. So it can make light boost.
Of course streaming from two hard drives is better, i mean RAID but i'm not sure how fast and how usefull it is, surely it boosts but whether the expenses cover themselfs. |
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texmex
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Posted : Jan 27, 2006 16:48
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RAID 0 can nearly double the harddisk io speeds, but it comes with a price. One fails, both fail. But you also get storage space of both disks. With RAID 0 you can have just one partition, because speed-wise it's like the normal 2 drive way, and it doesn't matter if one of the disks fail, you'll lose them anyway. So you don't have to separate system, apps and samples. It might fragment a bit more than two partitions, but regular defragmentation will sort it out.
RAID 1 is more secure (highly recommended), but as slow as a single drive. Only 1x storage space. Use it only for projects.
Reading from harddisk is faster in the beginning of the physical drive, so if you want faster io, you can create a smaller partition in the beginning. However, the benefit might not be that great.
I'd go for 1 physical drive for system, apps and samples and RAID 1 for project files. If you need speed, you might add one more, faster drive (raptor for example) for additional virtual memory and samples (and why not temporary project files too). Or use it for system and apps instead. But at least put virtual mem on the fastest drive.
And if you can afford it, you can take the fast lane: 2x raptors in RAID 0 for system, app and samples and 2x raptors in RAID 1 for projects. Only two partitions here - the fast one and the secure one. But 76gb raptors are something like $180 each... Not to mention the quality raid controllers. So money talks here  |
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