Which hard drive gets what software ?

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Pier Calacino

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Hello all,

I am confused after reading many of these threads as to which hard drive gets what software installed on it.

This is how I am going to set up my system. "I think" Help me out here"

#1. 20.4 GB quantum fireball 5,400 rpm HD + CDRW on IDE 1
#2. 30 GB quantum fireball 7,200 rpm HD on IDE 2

Now, if I understand correctly, the OS (W98 or W2K, I have both as options) would reside on the 5,400 rpm HD, and the multitrack program (when i get one) and the storage of the audio files will reside on the 7,200 rpm HD. Is this correct ?

Or should all programs including the multitrack program reside on the 5,400 rpm HD and only use the 7,200 rpm HD to store the finished audio files (.wav files) ?

Thanks
Pier Calacino
 
Or should all programs including the multitrack program reside on the 5,400 rpm HD and only use the 7,200 rpm HD to store the finished audio files (.wav files) ?

This is the reccomended way
Not only for storing, but the drive you should record to
 
*All* software should reside on your OS drive. Use the audio drive for storage of audio data files only.

Slackmaster 2000
 
I put the OS and ALL programs on the system drive, in your case the 5400 drive.
I do all recording to the faster data drive. And projects (in my case Cakewalk) that I am continueing to work on remain there.
Once a project is done I back it up to CDR and remove the files.

I also use the data drive for periodicly making a backup of the system drive - I use Symantec Ghost, I write an image of the whole system drive in 650 meg pieces, and then back that up to CDR. Once on CDR I delete the image from the data drive.
 
You should put your page file (swap file in Win9x) on the faster drive. This way, if you ever run out of physical memory, VM access will be faster.

Oh yea, one more thing. Set your page file's min and max size to the same thing. This will prevent fragmentation of your page file, which will end up hampering VM performance.
 
You should leave the swap file on the OS drive for optimal performance in this case. You want to leave the audio channel wide open.

Slackmaster 2000
 
NOTE: I only say that because when recording/mixing/etc, there will be very little critical disk access on the system drive, whereas the audio drive will be thrashing.

If fragmentation of the pagefile is a serious concern, then again in *this case* I would create a swap partition on the OS drive and move the pagefile to this partition.

In most other cases, moving the pagefile to a different can be beneficial.

Slackmaster 2000
 
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