Partition question

[akpcep]

Hi all,

I'm installing a new 7200rpm 80GB hard drive in my cubase machine, using NTFS.

Is it a good idea to have two partitions - one for applications and one for data (the cubase project/song data I mean) or does it not make a lot of difference?

Thanks!

 

[manning1]

best way

two drives. one for apps, one for tracks.
no matter how you slice it with partitioning you get whats called "head contention" on one drive.
also , still everything runs through the one drive one channel.
divide and conquer works best under the windows way of doing things.

 

[TexRoadkill]

I agree. Keep your old drive for apps and use the new one for media.

 

[pennylink]

Use the fastest one for audio data.

 

[akpcep]

Thanks for the advice guys - unfortunately I'm having a hell of a job installing Xp on this machine. It keeps giving me a "file cannot be copied" error, which I've been looking into. Unfortunately, it seems it could be caused by anything from the ram to the motherboard.

Ho hum.