Drive configuration question...

[UncleThumpy]

I think I have this right, but I've never gotten opinions from anyone, so I'm not sure if there is a better way to set up your drives for Cakewalk/SONAR.

SONAR is installed on c:/, WaveData and PictureCache are on e:/ (nice fast drive)...

Everything else in Global Options is pointing to c:/ Should I change this or does it not matter?

-L

 

[DS_Sultan]

OK Unc. what system tweaks have you done? I don't know about Sonar yet (it's waiting for me in South Dakota) but with v9, wave and picturecache should not be on the same drive.

If it's working then all is good. If not, then well, we need to look at your system.

Good luck.

 

[UncleThumpy]

Work's great!

No, I'm not having any *problems* (sadly refreshing isn't it) I just want to know if I can do any thing to increase performance..welll...more. (Who wouldn't?)

Yes I have them on the same drive, but in different directories..I know why they should be in defferent directories, but why different drives?

 

[UncleThumpy]

Oh yeah...

You did ask about system tweaks...welllll let's see:

1) Audio drive is formated with 64k blocks.
2) DMA is enabled where available.
3) Drives are defragged weekly.
4) Virtual memory is on it's own drive away from anything SONAR related. Also use 392M RAM, so paging is seldom an issue.
5) "Network Server" option is selected in disk IO hardware profile...(supposedly spends a little more RAM to speed up disk IO scheme...haven't noticed a change for better or worse)

That's about it. SONAR is using UDMA/100 drives on a separate Promise controller, 7200 rpm. Not incredibly fast, but quite nice, and separate from the main "C:/" drive.


;P