TWO HARD DRIVES technic...

[Proveras]

hello every body.

well, I am very glad,
cause I buy a new computer for my home studio:
its PIII 800mhz, 256ram, 8m video, AND.....

¡¡2 hard disks!!

1- udma 10g: for the Operative System, softwares, backups, all the directx stuff, drivers etc... (some photos)

2- udma 20g: for recording.

I decide this because an article that I read some where...
its say, that while the the software is runnig, and the laser is pointing one place... the other disk is recording, and it make the computer run faster....
or something like that, but thats the principal idea.
I already buy it that way.

WHAT DO YOU THINK ABOUT IT???

 

[Proveras]

mmm,
256ram in two disks or just in one???
no recurs are taking because, some one explain me that you can full the computer... in the BIOS s**t.
so it really will be 30g for the system.

it will be a dedicated AUDIO PC.

any coments??

 

[drstawl]

First comment would be to say that there is no laser involved. That's for CD. The HDs use a magnetic head.
Second- the RAM is on the mother board and isn't dedicated to handling the I/O of either one of the drives. If you're talking about the buffer on these HDs, then 2MB would be more like it.
The gurus can chime in here, but the main advantage of a separate HD for audio data is that you can "clean" it up (wipe it) completely with one quick command without having to reinstall your O/S. Second, you can simply swap out the HD to get another 20GB in just a few minutes. Add a removable drive bracket and this can be done in a few seconds. In most cases the CPU can read or write the drives alot faster than the drive operates, so the speed is based on the access speed and transfer rate of each drive. The drive controller also plays a role in this.
Multiple drives will be alot faster in certain RAID configurations, but that's a whole other deal.
No fooling of the BIOS is required. You already have a 30GB system distributed on two disks. If you don't plan on using the smaller one for audio data, why would you need the O/S to see this as one large volume? Just enjoy!

 

[RWhite]

Ditto most everything drstawl says. the second drive is a convience, not a necessity. It also makes it easy to use a program like Ghost to back up your C: drive to D: (and then eventually to CDR).

 

[ola]

I love having (at least) two discs and I think that two discs should be standard nowadays. It makes it so easy to reinstall the OS, which is something I do several times per year. Sure, partitions work but it's easier with two discs.

Cheers

/Ola