Just installed a second hard drive. What now?

[rockironwebb]

I just added a second hard drive to the pc I use to record and mix audio.
main hard drive is a 320 GHZ seagate
newly added hard drive is 160GHZ seagate.
I use an alesis multimix 16 firewire mixer
acoustica mixcraft
Acid Pro 7
Any advice on how I should set things up?
perhaps a nice informational link?
I searched the forum and was unable to find the specifics.

 

[JimmyS1969]

I assume you mean GB with the drive sizes. I would probably say to place your OS and software on the small HDD and your audio on the big one depending on the speeds of the drives. What are the drives and what are your system specs?

 

[rockironwebb]

OOps I did mean GB
the PC is an HP m8300f
Processor, Operating System and Memory
Operating system installed
Genuine Windows Vista® Home Premium
Processor
AMD Athlon™ 64 X2 Dual-Core Processor 6000+ for TRUE multi-tasking
• 3.00 GHz, 1MB + 1MB L2 Cache, 2000 MHz System Bus
Chipset
NVIDIA nForce 430 Chipset
Standard memory
3072 MB(2 x1 024 MB) ( 2 x 512 MB) (expandable to 8GB)
Memory type
DDR2 SDRAM memory
Memory slots
4 DIMM (240-pin, DDR2) (occupied)
Internal drives
Internal hard disk drive
640GB (2 x 320MB)
Hard disk controller
Serial ATA hard drive
Hard disk drive speed
7200 RPM
Optical drive type
SuperMulti DVD Burner with LightScribe Technology
Optical drive speed
16x DVDR, 8x DVD+RW, 6x DVD-RW, 8x DVD+R DL, 4x DVD-R DL, 5x DVD-RAM, 16x DVD-ROM, 40x CDR, 32x CDRW, 40x CD-ROM
The HP hard drive is a seagate barracuda 7200.10 320 GB
the hard drive I just installed is a seagate barracuda 7200.11 160 GB

 

[c7sus]

Do a google search for mixcraft and see how they recommend using a second drive.

In Sonar you create a file on the second drive and direct all the audio to that file.

You leave Sonar on C:\ along with whatever soft synths and samples asscociated with them.

 

[TimOBrien]

Audio processing streams a LOT of data. Drives need to give you quick, uninterrupted access. Separate dedicated drives help a lot to let you stream more tracks with less problems. The goal is SMOOTH UNINTERRUPTED THROUGHPUT of data so you wont get clicks, pops or worse, dropouts. Your sample libraries and audio projects should be on separate drives so they can stream without interruption.

Boot C drive - OS, apps and plugins
Secondary drive - Sample libraries (if you use them)
Third drive - Audio tracks and misc. data