PlanetZ forums - scopeusers.com

On 2003-08-28 03:44, garyb wrote:
two harddrives,one for data(music) and one for programs is a very good idea.repartition those drives reformat and install xp(which is all one step) and then:

i'm done drive1=3 partitions. C=All programs and D=All cakewalk data and E=win2000(for capture vdo)
And drive2=2 partition. G= all reason refill and giga file and H= all music and loops in .wev
** is it ok or you mean drive 1 = programs and drive2 = all cakewalk/sx data?
thanks a lot.

I think he means 1 OS and audio programs on one HDD and all audio data on a separate HDD. You can have 2 OS on one HDD, one OS dedicated to audio, the other for other stuff. But the audio data should be on a separate HDD. It might be good to have your cakewalk and SX data on this HDD, but run the programs from the other HDD.
Hope this helps

ya Ricardo.. its easy. just select the drive when open a new project from cakewalk or sx. i got it..program will come from Drive1 and cakewalk data will come from another Drive2. thats cool

yes.

Maybe you want think about making an image of your drives?
I did it when I instaqlled the most important thingies once. Now when something will happen, I only need to reload the image and my system is clean again.
Only a hint.

The key is really having two physical drives - not just partitions on a single drive. I have heard that creating partitions can actually hurt the performance of the drive when using it for audio.

On 2003-09-16 21:34, huffcw wrote:
I have heard that creating partitions can actually hurt the performance of the drive when using it for audio.

what do you think grayb? and do you use scsi or ide7200rpm?

Another tip re: having two HDDs is to have the swap file on the 'other' drive (i.e. not the drive which has the OS installation).

Every little helps...

Royston

ide.

Thanks to All of you...

On 2003-09-17 06:09, Counterparts wrote:
Another tip re: having two HDDs is to have the swap file on the 'other' drive (i.e. not the drive which has the OS installation).

Every little helps...

Royston

What MUST be avoided is to have swapfile on the same disk where audio files are recorded and played.

Fundamentally, is the task of audio rec and play that must be on a disk free from any other contemporary task.

So I would suggest, if you have 2HD's, to put the swapfile on the first partition AFTER C:,on the OS disk.

As I use to have a swap tray for the OS disk, so I can use different installations for different tasks and also I have a ready to use Installation to replace if I'm working and something goes wrong, I save all song data (.all or .cpr, .pro, non resident samples, audio files) in the audio HD in the same folder. This stuff is then transfered on cd's (double copy) when that song is finished.

This way, if I change OS disk, where also programs are installed, I can keep on working on a project.

I have also a partition on the Audio HD (as it is common for all installations loaded) where I put all those files that are very useful for all the different installations plus a ready to recovery ghost image. It doesn't do absolutely nothing bad as it is not accessed while playing and recording.

It works very well.

hello again...
which one is perfect setup?
Setup(A)
*primary IDE connector>Drive1>Drive2
*sesondary IDE connector>cdrw
Setup(B)
*primary IDE connector>Drive1>cdrw
*sesondary IDE connector>drive2
Please explain why?
thanks

don't know about perfect,but "b" is better.you will only have audio on the secondary ide bus which is better for bandwidth.