Corrupted recordings

[Chewie]

I'm using ACid Pro the record some tracks. Sometimes when I'm playing back it will sound like when you download a bad MP3. Now the drive with that stuff was compressed. When I decompressed that seemed tofixed the problem. Now when even when I record the actual recording, not just the playback, sounds like this. I recorded to another drive and no problems. The thing is when I benckmark the first drive it is getting better results.
My question is what else could be causing this noise and what I can do to find what iti s and how to fix. I also noted that CPU usage and memory usage were both low.

Running:
512Mb RAM
Dual P3 800MhZ
XP Pro SP2
Acid Pro 4
Delta1010LT

 

[TimOBrien]

You NEVER use drive compression on any computer doing audio or video production.
The poor computer is already doing tons of stuff just to keep up.

You're probably going to have to reformat the drive. If it's too small; get another drive... 120 and 200Gb drives are cheap now.

 

[Chewie]

Does the size of the drive matter? I mean I seem to get better performance when the unused takes were deleted from the drive even though they weren't in the project.

I basically want to know if there is a way to monitor the drive while in use to see if the usage is high and so knw for sure the drive is performing too slow.

 

[AGCurry]

The size of the drive and whether or not you use compression should only affect the sound if it causes your system to work so hard that it "makes mistakes", causing dropouts, stuttering, etc.. The capacity of the drive partition might matter in that files become fragmented sooner as free space decreases, but it should not affect the overall sound quality. If your system is fast enough to do the extra processing, the sound should not be affected. While I agree with Tim that it's a bad idea to compress audio files, it doesn't sound like that's the problem. I would look to the configuration of your sound card, audio software, and the system.

 

[Chewie]

I downloaded a program called Active SMART and it's telling me that drive was running hot, raw read was low and CRC checking was bad. So it was infact the drive. But in my search I was playing with the latency settings of my Delta101LT but I have no idea what I'm doing. After playing a bit fruity loops would have tons and tons, as in indecipherable, clicks and pops no matter how I changed the latenc settings. What is all that about? Everything works when I reset but at settings that I would have tried before the that didn't work.