Elephone
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Second Hard Drive recommendations (for Sample Libraries)
#910686 - 26/04/11 05:00 PM
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At the moment, I have a 1TB hard drive with audio projects on one partition, sample
libraries on two different partitions.
However, I've been advised that the
drive capturing audio data should be on a separate disc to that of the samples. Does this
mean that it's not such a problem if the audio is on the system drive, on a different
partition?
Can anyone recommend an especially good drive for sample libraries?
(I know it should be 7200rpm.)
Thanks
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soothingtones
Joined: 30/10/10
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Re: Second Hard Drive recommendations (for Sample Libraries)
[Re: Elephone]
#910714 - 26/04/11 07:02 PM
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If you are using a Mac these are good.
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codsworth
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Re: Second Hard Drive recommendations (for Sample Libraries)
[Re: soothingtones]
#910821 - 27/04/11 11:07 AM
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Hi there, If you can afford it, I would personally buy three extra drives so
that your system/progs are on one, your library is on another, your projects including
their audio is on another & you use the last one (which could be external to back
everything up onto using something like Acronis true image or Norton Ghost. I know
it's more money but it will work better & the space will last for ages if you keep it
tidy. I personally find Western Digital drives to be very good &
reliable. Hope this helps. Regards, Codsworth 
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Elephone
Joined: 11/02/09
Posts: 630
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Re: Second Hard Drive recommendations (for Sample Libraries)
[Re: Elephone]
#911145 - 28/04/11 03:20 PM
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Thanks for the advice, I went for the Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1TB (maybe
not the best, but suites my current budget).
This drive is probably a higher
standard than the (same-spec unbranded) one I had installed with my PC. It occurs further
in the list by cost on PC specialist's website.
Should I perhaps use this for
my system drive instead, even though I've had no problems with it? To be honest, I've not
really had any problems running sample libraries from the system drive, although I haven't
pushed it that far yet. It was more a space thing.
Cheers.
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chris...
active member
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Loc: Glasgow
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Re: Second Hard Drive recommendations (for Sample Libraries)
[Re: Elephone]
#911153 - 28/04/11 04:05 PM
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Quote James101:
However, I've
been advised that the drive capturing audio data should be on a separate disc to that of
the samples.
That could be worth
doing, IF your existing setup is failing to deliver.
Otherwise, why bother ?
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Pete Kaine
Scan Computers
Joined: 10/07/03
Posts: 3212
Loc: Manchester
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Re: Second Hard Drive recommendations (for Sample Libraries)
[Re: Elephone]
#912102 - 03/05/11 12:05 PM
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Quote James101:
Thanks for the
advice, I went for the Western Digital WD1002FAEX Caviar Black 1TB (maybe not the best,
but suites my current budget).
Short of getting crazy and installing a load of enterprise drives personally I
don't think the are any better drives currently than that one. All the video guys I deal
with go crazy about the data throughput on them and I can't say I'd argue with that.
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ScanProAudio & 3XS Audio Systems
ScanProAudio Blog
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Elephone
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Re: Second Hard Drive recommendations (for Sample Libraries)
[Re: chris...]
#912344 - 04/05/11 12:09 PM
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Quote:
That could be worth
doing, IF your existing setup is failing to deliver.
Otherwise, why bother ?
Well, I haven't pushed it
that far and intent to, so I'd rather avoid problems from the start. Also, I'm running out
of space.
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Elephone
Joined: 11/02/09
Posts: 630
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IR libraries and sample on different volumes or drives?
[Re: Elephone]
#912345 - 04/05/11 12:12 PM
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Do most people put their IR libraries on the same Disc or partition as their sample
libraries?
Is there an significant advantage to putting IRs on a different
partition to samples?
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Martin Walker
Watcher Of The Skies
Joined: 28/02/01
Posts: 16482
Loc: Cornwall, UK
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Re: IR libraries and sample on different volumes or drives?
[Re: Elephone]
#912368 - 04/05/11 02:40 PM
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I do for convenience, but there’s no performance benefit, since IRs tend to get loaded
in once, whereas much sample data gets streamed in real time. It’s simply
that I have over 14GB of Impulse Responses, and my Samples partition is around 500GB, so
what the hell - they are samples after all  Martin
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SafeandSound Masteri...
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Loc: London UK
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Re: Second Hard Drive recommendations (for Sample Libraries)
[Re: Elephone]
#912371 - 04/05/11 02:54 PM
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As far as it is possible to understand I hear on the grapevine that WD and Samsung
Spinpoint drives are good choices currently. I have both and have no problems
to report at the moment. Of course any drive can fail any time so make frequent
back ups.
-------------------- Mastering online mastering
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Elephone
Joined: 11/02/09
Posts: 630
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Re: Second Hard Drive recommendations (for Sample Libraries)
[Re: SafeandSound Mastering]
#912373 - 04/05/11 03:06 PM
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Thanks for the advice.
I'm going to back-up in a zig-zag fashion. System and
audio (Drive1) backed up on sample and IR (drive 2), any changes to sample libraries
backed up on drive 1.
I'll use external drives for music collection backups,
etc.
Cheers
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