How many hardrives??

[Mastermindzz]

I am going to build a setup that consist of software with Windows ME and Windows 2000, is it better to use a seperate hardrive for each or one large hardrive and partition it into two hardrive, if i go seperatly it will be two 40 gig hardrives or one 80 gig hardrive, which will be better and I will also be using seperate sound cards for each operating system......

 

[Queue]

I'd get 2 40GB drives, partition both of them into 20GB partitions. First drive would be your OS drive, one partition per OS, the second drive, use the outer partition for active audio files and projects, and the inner partition for backup/storage.

Queue

 

[giaschel]

I'd get 2 40GB drives

Why not one HD with four partitions?

 

[ola]

I'd get two discs. One for OSes, Apps and swapfile - and one for Audio files, as large as you can afford. I run W2k and 98 on the same disc and partition and they don't collide. Just make sure that if you have the same program on both OSes, use different installation folders.

 

[PapillonIrl]

Why not one HD with four partitions?

Because everything is using one cable, both the OS and the audio data, whereas two disks will have two separate cables.


pAp.

 

[ola]

whereas two disks will have two separate cables.

If they're setup on different IDE channels, yes. Otherwise, they'll still be using the same cable.

 

[PapillonIrl]

Yeah, sorry. Thats what I meant. I have to say that setting things up this way helped my recording so much that its not funny. I used to get 'skips' when recording\playback over 5 - 6 tracks. This problem disappeared altogether when I got my new disk, and set it up on a different channel. I have recorded while playing back over 30 tracks with no cases of the background mixing being unable to keep up.

pAp.