120 gig/8Gig

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OK guys...
I have a 120 gig HD right now and I have everything on it. My whole system. I also use it for Pro Tools.
Would it be a good Idea to get another say 8 gig HD and install my Internet and OS on it and use the 120 gig HD for PT only? Would that make anykind of diggerence???
 
I'd say don't.
8GB? That must be an ancient disk. Slow and sluggish. If you want your internet software/OS separate from the rest, make an extra 8GB partition on the 120GB drive. You'll hardly notice that you miss those 8GBs when recording, (<10% of the whole disk) but you'll get the disk's performance for internet use and you'll surely notice that difference.
 
i dont know where you would get a new 8gig HD. the only really good reason I see to do that is if you OS HD crashed and you had to reformat- you dont wanna loose all the music on the 120gig
 
I got the 8 gig out of my Xbox. I replaced its original HD with a 120gig so it would hold more backedup games.
 
I'd concur- the 8GB drive is likely to be a turd.

I can't even find a drive smaller than 40GB at the store anymore.
Strictly swapmeet used junk.

For O/S I'd suggest a 40GB drive. For audio files, the largest you can find.
 
Id do the partition like Christiaan mentioned or if you MUST use the 8 GB drive, still keep everything on the 120gb drive and use the 8gb drive only for the .wav files that you are currently working with.......
 
I've got a similar situation to yours.

I have a 40GB as my main drive with an old 8GB I use for backups.

The 40GB is partitioned into an 8GB C partition and a 32GB D partition. The 8GB drive is the E drive. This allows me to Ghost the C drive straight across to the E drive for total redundancy. Any files I absolutely can't afford to lose, go on the C drive and get backed up whenever I Ghost.

However I'm about to toss the 8GB drive and get another 80 or 120GB and do the same sort of thing
 
Just adding a partition to your computer may help some things, but it will not, for example, increase your track count. The advantage of having two hard drives on an audio computer is that instead of having one drive read/write head doing both OS and data, you have one head for data and one head for the OS. You don't gain this advantage if you simply partition your drive.

I say go with the 8 GB drive if your apps will fit on it. If it's awful just get a better one. The important thing is that you keep your data and OS on separate drives.
 
Your options depend on your price range. The absolute best would be to get a RAID card and buy another 120 Gig HD and one for your OS, like an ATA100 40 Gig. This will do 2 things for you. 1, total redundancy if set up the 120 Gigs in RAID 1 mode, and 2, it takes your recording drives off of the same IDE buss as your OS HD or your CDROMS. Whatever device you want to have the best performance, you should keep that alone on an IDE buss so there is not another device to take it's bandwidth. On my computer, I have on-board RAID, so my OS and my recording drives are on the RAID controller for lightning fast operation, and both of my CDROMs are on their own independant IDE Buss, so both of them are very fast. I have a network backup server, so when i am done recording I just backup the days work over the network to a totally different computer.
 
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