Free disc space question

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How much free space do you need on your hard drive for it to work properly?
I keep my samples on my OS drive and it's getting pretty filled up and I really don't want to put another drive into my computer.
 
I've heard and read that for Win XP, you need to have at least 25% free on your OS drive. This gives the pagefile(virtual memory) room to operate efficiently. It also give you room to complete tasks like defragmentation.

Of course, having as much RAM as you can helps too.

Using a fixed size pagefile will help. It's also possible to move the pagefile memory to another drive.
 
michaelst said:
I've heard and read that for Win XP, you need to have at least 25% free on your OS drive.
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I've heard about the same - 15%-25% (not including space allocated for page file). If you are down to a couple gigs and everything is running fine, I guess you don't have a problem, but bare in mind that without a fixed page file size, that thing can grow to a couple GB or more.
 
25% is good.

Your drive is filling up with samples??? Got USB2??? Get an external USB2 drive (I'm running a Seagate Freeagent 500GB drive I got for $99 on sale) for samples and video editing.... works like a champ.
 
I've done some house cleaning and got back up to 18%.back when I had the computer built 40gigs for an OS drive seemed like enough but then I added Kompakt,GPO,JABB and now Wusikstaion and I'm a guitar player who doesn't really play keys.:eek:
I have 8gigs of loops I'm considering moving to the audio drive,my thinking being that SONAR loads loops into ram,rather than reading them from disc.

My computer is a P4-2.4 with 2gigs of ram,it's plenty for my needs but I don't want it bogging down.
 
TimOBrien said:
25% is good.

Your drive is filling up with samples??? Got USB2??? Get an external USB2 drive (I'm running a Seagate Freeagent 500GB drive I got for $99 on sale) for samples and video editing.... works like a champ.
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Can it read the samples in real time for disc streaming?Plus I'm worried about USB conflicts,at present I'm only running a 2x2 midi port on usb.
 
acidrock said:
How much free space do you need on your hard drive for it to work properly?
I keep my samples on my OS drive and it's getting pretty filled up and I really don't want to put another drive into my computer.
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WHy dont you make a partition? put yer OP and programmes on 1 paertition and your saved files etc on the other partition.

Eck
 
TimOBrien said:
25% is good.

Your drive is filling up with samples??? Got USB2??? Get an external USB2 drive (I'm running a Seagate Freeagent 500GB drive I got for $99 on sale) for samples and video editing.... works like a champ.
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Id say Firewire would be better if your using loads of samples in real time in your DAW.

Eck
 
ecktronic said:
WHy dont you make a partition? put yer OP and programmes on 1 paertition and your saved files etc on the other partition.

Eck
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Partioning isn't going to gain any space,it's a forty gig drive that was down to under four gigs of free space.By eliminating files and garbage I got it back up to 7 free gigs.
My audio drive has plenty free space,but I wanted to keep that drive audio only.
 
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