Hello,
I've been recording for several years and am now attempting to build my first DAW. I've got a question regarding how to configure the hard drives.
The motherboard is the ASUS P4c800 E Deluxe
I'll be installing Gigstudio 3 along with Cubase SX3 and various other samples, so I'll need to be able to do DFD.
Here is my planned purchase list and my method of setting up the 3 hard drives:
1) Western Digital 40 Gig, 8mb cache for the OS and the programs.
2) Western Digital 200 Gig 8mb cache SATA for giga samples and other DFD sample.
3) Western Digital 80 Gig 8mb cache SATA for Audio (I'll probably partition into 20 gig (active Audio files) and 60 gig for (archived Audio files)
4) Plextor DVD RW (? PX712A I believe is the model #)
My question is: which drive(s) to install on separate channels and which are master(s) and slave(s). I realize that the SATA will go to the SATA channels, but........I'm not sure about OS drive and DVD etc. Any advice or info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Paul
I've been recording for several years and am now attempting to build my first DAW. I've got a question regarding how to configure the hard drives.
The motherboard is the ASUS P4c800 E Deluxe
I'll be installing Gigstudio 3 along with Cubase SX3 and various other samples, so I'll need to be able to do DFD.
Here is my planned purchase list and my method of setting up the 3 hard drives:
1) Western Digital 40 Gig, 8mb cache for the OS and the programs.
2) Western Digital 200 Gig 8mb cache SATA for giga samples and other DFD sample.
3) Western Digital 80 Gig 8mb cache SATA for Audio (I'll probably partition into 20 gig (active Audio files) and 60 gig for (archived Audio files)
4) Plextor DVD RW (? PX712A I believe is the model #)
My question is: which drive(s) to install on separate channels and which are master(s) and slave(s). I realize that the SATA will go to the SATA channels, but........I'm not sure about OS drive and DVD etc. Any advice or info would be greatly appreciated. Thanks!
Paul