question about spreading libraries to different hard drives

[Midi maniac]

I have question about spreading libraries to different hard drives.
I want to free some cpu so I decided to spread my play and kontakt libraries to multiple hard drives.
I have one hard drve(1tb) that I had partitioned. The one part is a boot drive , the other one is a data drive.
I put some of my libraries to one drive and the remaining samples to the second partitioned drive.
Is this going to help regarding CPU or not? In other words, are they (the partitioned drives) considered as different drives or since they come from the same drive it does not make any differnece?

Please advise?

[cuttime]

This will not free any CPU resources. The drive throughput is fixed through its bus, regardless of partitions or number of drives.

[Frodo]

I see two problems:

1. Running sample data from two partitions on the same drive is going to overwork the drive and slow down seek times.

2. If one of those partitions is the system, the potential issues over time will likely increase. Ideally, the system drive is already going to be busy enough.

I would recommend different drives (and smaller ones) rather than streaming from one or more partitions on a drive that is already busy.

[Midi maniac]

do you think it would be better to install a new drive and transfer the samples on that new drive?

[Frodo]

Yes.

It's better to allow one drive to do one thing at a time. Three or four drives might be better:

1. System
2. DP projects and audio
3. Virtual instruments
4. Virtual instruments

Check these threads as well:

http://www.motunation.com/forum/viewtop ... =1&t=40105

http://www.motunation.com/forum/viewtop ... =1&t=39695

http://www.motunation.com/forum/viewtop ... =1&t=39644

[Midi maniac]

Thanks
Here is my next question:
I have two drives. Both have dp installed.
Since all of my sample libraries were on the same hard drive with dp I decided to switch the hard drive and run DP from the old drive.
The problem is that in the dp project it cannot load the samples from Play library. It shows me error message that sample files missing

How can I fix this?
It is impossible for me to install all the sample libraries from Play at the drive that I will be running dp because there are only 60GB of space available.
Any sugestions? Do I have to have the Play samples on the second drive as well? Actually that's why I switched drives in order to free some cpu overload and run dp from a different drive than the samples' drive

[b.g.]

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The problem is that in the dp project it cannot load the samples from Play library. It shows me error message that sample files missing

How can I fix this?
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Yeah, I got that too when I moved Play samples to a new drive. When you get that Play dialog box just click OK or whatever it is to proceed and then navigate to the folder where your Play samples now reside and click Open or Ok, whichever.