Mar 24, 2005 10:22 am hell, just get as big of ones as you can afford. I run a 60 for system and an 80 for audio...it works for me.
HD recomendation
Posted on Mar 24, 2005 10:04 am
ZX6R1033
Perdido
Member Since: Dec 15, 2004
I am looking for a set (2) hard drives for my computer. I am going to end up with three total. I have a 60 gig HD for operating system and all programs. The two hard drives will be used ONLY for recording. any recomendations on what size hard drives I should be looking at? I dont believe I will be working with too many tracks at a time, so I am going with 7200 RPM drives.
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Mar 24, 2005 10:22 am hell, just get as big of ones as you can afford. I run a 60 for system and an 80 for audio...it works for me.
Mar 24, 2005 10:29 am 8MB or even a 16MB cache would be cool .
Mar 24, 2005 10:39 am I was looking at a set of 200 gig HDs, but then I started thinking that might be a bit of overkill. I dont need 460 gigs, 400 of which are dedicated solely to recording. For 108 bucks, I can pick up a set of Maxxtor 7200 RPM 8 MB 80 gig HDs brand new. I was thinking that 160 gigs would probably be enough. Sounds to me from what dB said that I would be fine with those?
Mar 24, 2005 10:42 am Yeah, unless you are a guy like Noize2u that needs a few hundred gigs just for collections of samples and crap, you prolly won't need that.
Mar 24, 2005 11:14 am I just got a new Maxtor 40Gb as my system drive. It's 7200 RPM, and I can't believe how quiet it is! It's replacing an older maxtor that was substantially noisier. They must've made some strides in recent years. They get a thumbs up from me.
Mar 24, 2005 11:18 am i'd look into a dvd burner insteada two HD's, just get one big one (besides C:) for audio then archive onto a dvd or three............DBD's 35 tracks of 30mins takes up 16+ CDR's (rough estimate) which takes up a whole "stack" of cd's in my cd case!! i totally wasn't planing on that...anyway yeah DVD burners are your friend.
peace
wyd
Mar 24, 2005 11:20 am or one of those rackmount drive bays!!! those are Schwwweeeet!
Mar 24, 2005 11:22 am My audio drive is in a removable bay, Noize has the same type, so we can bring our drives to each others studios and work, it's pretty cool...thought we haven't done it much lately :(
Mar 24, 2005 11:26 am ya know that got me thinkin'.....wouldn't the "most flexible" setup have bay drives, and a firewire (or USB i guess) dvd burner that you can take with you to other studios?!!! ooooOOOooo two new things that i need now! great lol
Mar 24, 2005 12:47 pm the theory behind two hds instead of one is running AA 1.5 so it dumps onto two hds during a project so the hd doesnt have to work as hard to keep up. running one hd or backing things up would negate the reasoning for this.
Mar 24, 2005 12:50 pm Is this some sort of striping? if it's a volume, then you're not benefiting. Course, i'm thinking micro$oft here. I'd like to know more of this.
Mar 24, 2005 01:42 pm I have bad luck with the HD working to its full potential when im working with multiple tracks or larger projects... using two hds cuts the work load in half to each of the hds. there is nothing more to it than that. so running 2 7200 RPM discs is like running one single 15,000 RPM disc.
Mar 24, 2005 02:08 pm I'm wondering which application is telling the write/read process to span two hard drives.
Am I missing something here?
I understand the principles of using multiple hard drives, having worked with / built / supported large servers in the past.
I'm wondering who's doing the disk management. The MB? the OS? the App layer? the software?
Mar 24, 2005 02:24 pm The software. Adobe Audition, upon loading, asks specifically If you would like to set up two seperate Temp files for recording onto two seperate hard drives. I am told Sonar does this as well.
Mar 24, 2005 02:34 pm Cool, I did not know that. Thanks.
Mar 24, 2005 03:06 pm Sonar does not ask, but it has a configuration option that allows you to dump temp files anywhere your wish.
Mar 24, 2005 10:58 pm Ya, that is the part I like in Sonar. Per project folders. They contain everything including the audio so it works great. And if I use some wierd synth that dB might not have, I simply freeze the tracks and the synths come with. I could send the project off to flame or someone and they get the sounds I am using even if they dont have the same softsynths and what not.
But as for the drives, as dB stated we use the removable bays which is great when a project gets big and I need to start another, just pop in another drive. I added SATA drives on the new box for sample storage only. The new synth in the secret project beta uses over 3 gig of files alone. DrumCore uses 9 gig, so you can run out of space fast when using big instruments like those.
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