Well, you did bring up FW, albeit indirectly in the original post. My answer was that big or little drives will make no difference, but getting a new FW drive is like investing in buggy whips. You might not be interested in the possibility of getting USB 3 instead of FW, but there might be other people reading this thread, and it could be relevant to them.
As for why there are recommendations to spread samples across multiple drives: because each drive has limitations in how much it can deliver, so more drives will help get around that problem.
Setting up Hard Drives for recording and Sample Libraries
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Re: Setting up Hard Drives for recording and Sample Librarie
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Re: Setting up Hard Drives for recording and Sample Librarie
That's not my experience - when it comes to load times anyway. Before I set up my SSD on a SATA3 card I had all my libraries spread over multiple drives. Once I got the SSD I moved all my goto libraries to that SSD, but it slowed load times and DP seemed to hit the wall easier. Spreading the libraries back out a little helped things. My libraries are now on two sata ssds and a FW drive.Running your libraries on as many multiple drives as possible was excellent advice in the old ATA/EIDE (now known as PATA) days. It just isn't a real world issue with SATA bus speeds.
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Re: Setting up Hard Drives for recording and Sample Librarie
I agree with the last poster. I think that I'm going to keep my sample libraries on a number of different drives and maybe try a single, non-partitioned 4Tb record drive. I am going to invest in a PCIe card with USB3 and SATA and maybe spring for a few 1Tb SSDs for my libraries to see if that gives me consistent and fast playback.
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Re: Setting up Hard Drives for recording and Sample Librarie
I'm one of those folks for whom it is relevant. Thanks for the info!bayswater wrote:Well, you did bring up FW, albeit indirectly in the original post. My answer was that big or little drives will make no difference, but getting a new FW drive is like investing in buggy whips. You might not be interested in the possibility of getting USB 3 instead of FW, but there might be other people reading this thread, and it could be relevant to them.
As for why there are recommendations to spread samples across multiple drives: because each drive has limitations in how much it can deliver, so more drives will help get around that problem.
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Re: Setting up Hard Drives for recording and Sample Librarie
All good stuff. It absolutely will.rosindabow wrote:I am going to invest in a PCIe card with USB3 and SATA and maybe spring for a few 1Tb SSDs for my libraries to see if that gives me consistent and fast playback.
Thanks.