Re: Partitioning hard drives for audio use?
- From: Mike Rivers <mrivers@xxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Thu, 18 Sep 2008 11:27:19 GMT
Tommi wrote:
^^ So, I have three physical hard disks at my disposal. How would you guys recommend I set them up?
-Disk number 1, I'll make two partitions; one partition for OS, one for audio programs + other applications. You think this would be wise?
This was a popular scheme ten years ago, but old ideas die hard on the net. The most significant feature of an installation like this is that you can reformat the OS partition and do a "clean install" without having to re-install all of your applications. That was valid under Windows up through 3.1 where Windows was a shell running on top of DOS, and you have a reasonable amount of control over where programs put things when they were installed (most were just copied to a directory and there was no registry). But the way people are writing for Windows today, there are certain places where pieces of programs are expected to go and they get unhappy if you try to put them elsewhere. For example, a program may install special DLL files in the Windows\System32 directory. If you reformat the Windows partition, you'll wipe out those files and eventually you'll use the program that requires them and it won't work.
-Disk number 2, also two partitions; one for audio to be recorded, one for video (some video-related work will be done).
This may help you with organization and backup, but it won't improve performance.
-Disk 3; no partitions, just a big audio sample library.
Same as above.
There was some justification for putting programs and data on separate drives when there wasn't enough memory in the computer for the program to load, and it needed to swap portions out on disk, which took time away from the constant streaming disk access that audio and video requires. Today this is less of a problem, and disks are faster, too.
Today I think that it's best to stick with a single drive, or use a second drive just for data. Use your third drive for backup, and use it regularly.
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