disk compression

[SilentSound]

aight it's been a while... i am moving to LA from little town of bethlehem and bringing my rack, adats, digital board(tascam tmd-8000) with me i have this computer system i put together but never got working but i am going to need it up soon i only ever plan on using it for my own stuff when i am there i read about disk compression and i wonder if it is something that you can control or you must have a certain hard drive for it the hardrive i save audio to is a maxtor 20.7 gig i have the os and other crap on the 4 gig no name.. it's an asus p2b motherboard with a 400 mhz pentium II i plan on running protools the deal is.. do i need a special hd to save stuff on or can i tell that one to just do it for me??

 

[Spider]

if im reading this correctly , then yes , just tell it to save audio here.... i hope i havent missed the point here ...

 

[AlChuck]

Don't set up disk compression on a drive you're using for audio -- big no-no -- it's hard enough for the hardware to stream all that data properly as it is; if you intoduce a compress on the writes and an uncompress on the reads, you're asking for trouble.