How do I use my multiple drives correctly??

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Hi Gang,
I have three drives:

WD 20 gig 7200 8 mg buf
WD 80 gig 7200 8 mg buf
WD 80 gig 7200 8 mg buf

I am running Sonar 2.2 XL w/ Mia Midi

Where do I put what??
Please let me know how you have yours set up, or any tips you may have on this.

Thanks,
V
 
Since there are no takers on this one so far, I will give it a shot.
You probably have at least 2 controllers on your motherboard, right?

On the first controller as master, I would put the 20gb hdd. I would install my OS, Sonar and any other apps I need.
The slave drive would be one of my 80gb hdd. This drive would be used to back up finished songs and/or *.bun files.

The second controller as master I would put the final 80gb hdd. That one would be used for my data (audio) drive. The slave on that controller would be my CD (CDr/rw or DVD, etc...) drive .

I hope this information you find useful...


Vice
 
I would by a raid controller and use the 2 80 gig drives with that- stripe em if you wanna be able to access data faster- mirror em if you wanna be safe- use the 20 gig as OS and Applications drive
 
Thanks, I guess I am kinda confused.....
I install Sonar and any other applications on "C"
Then use "D" to store my projects on...
Now here is where I am confused...What "audio data" would exist for my "E" drive ???

Could someone elaborate on the whole "Slave vs Master" thing as well ??

I appreciate your help......So much to learn !!

Thanks,
V
 
You could use your E: drive as a backup for the data.

Don't worry about doing a Raid with the two drives. You will be able to run at least 32 24/48 tracks on one drive.

Ed
 
buy a controller PCI card that allows 2 more ribbon IDE cables to be used on a system then make sure the drive on the second ribbon connecter is set to slave and the drive on the end connecter is set to master...

or buy a board with extra IDE inputs, check newegg.com, best reseller in the world, IMHO...

do a google for "more than two drives" or something to that effect...
 
You might not need to buy that extra controller if your motherboard already has two on it. On the back of the drives should be a jumper (you might need to use the documentation that came with the drives if you can't tell) that allows you to select master or slave.


Vice
 
generaly mainboards come with 1 HHD IDE and he wants to install 3 drives, all i've ever seen is a 2 input ribbon cable, you?

granted he could run one from the 2hd IDE with the CD but preformance will surely suffer at the given DMA mode....
 
I would set it up exactly as vicevursa said.

@v847:
.....What "audio data" would exist for my "E" drive ???...

If you select E as the place where your project files will be stored, then Sonar will create subfolders where audio files will be placed.

As for performance at DMA, no, I don't think it will suffer. It was so in the past but not now thank goodness.
 
I have a question along the same lines. I have (2) Hard drives and (2) CD's, one of which is a burner. Is it better to have 1 HD as master and CD as slave on one controller, and the same thing on the second controller? Or is it better to have both HD drives on one controller, and both CD's on the other?
 
I have an Abit KG7raid mobo. If the raid set up is not enabled it gives you 2 extra IDE channels. Right now I have 2 hard drives set up as master on seoparate IDE channels and a CD set up as master on its own channel. That leaves me with one free IDE channel. Would I have a significant improvement in performance if I added a third hard drive on the free channel to use exclusively for a rompler or sampler with all the samples stored on that drive?I currently have a partition the first drive with the OS. All the apps are on the second partition and the second hard drive is used exclusively for audio data.
 
I would use my two fastest drives (probably the 2 80G) as operating system drive and data drives. I would ditch the other 20G as its probably a lot slower. I would copy any vital data from my 20G to one of the 80G before this. Check UDMA modes of all drives at boot up to confirm this. Basically higher UDMA mode=higher speed then 7200 drives are faster than 5400.
 
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