Will a large hard drive affect recording?

[keano]

I need to get a new 2nd hard drive right now I am running out of space on it. From tons of samples from programs. Will have a large 2nd HD affect recording? 500GB

[mrbrown49]

Nope. It's good to run two drives, and music stuff can get really big, really fast. Just make sure you get a quiet one if your PC is in your tracking room, some of the large drives can be noisy. I have both a western digital and a seagate that are pretty quiet.

[keano]

thanks. would there be any delay sluggishness when playing a program using samples or a song with a few programs VSTs going using samples since it is 500gb?

 

Is 32mb better then the 16mb option. Though the search time on the 16mb seems faster?

[flatfinger]

Go over to the sound on sound archive ... there are articles galore on the subject . You need to partition the HD and make this your "current projects " area . The first area where you set up a logical partition will be on the outside of the disk , which also happens to have the fastest seek and read and write times.If you run a sampler then put all your samples there too .

 

Aslo , If you look at a typical HD that is one giant partition with the OS and all ; after awhile the de-fragment map generated is full of little areas designated as "system " and in a FIXED POSITION!! you don't want that in the middle of a sample file ..

 

Go track down the sos article(s ). Everything you need to know is there .

 

 

Cheers