PT crashing despite having 24 GB of RAM.

[TOM@METRO]

Originally Posted by 64GTOBOY

Oops, echoed albee

But, well worth repeating.

[Burstbucker]

When I brought in my wife's desktop computer to the computer shop a couple of months ago, I handed this new 525 GB SSD to the tech and asked him to install it as my D: Drive I was going to have Pro Tools program on the C: Drive and save all of my PT sessions audio to the 525 GB SSD as the D: drive.

But he assured me that it would make much more sense to install the SSD as the C: Drive and move the 1 TB hardrive down into the D: Drive (Data)

Now I'm wondering if he might have steered me wrong. I hope not!

I just checked my computer and pretty much all programs including PT12 are stored on the SSD C: Drive and nothing much is on the 1 TB D: Drive

My PT audio files are all being saved on the C: drive, am I ok to leave it like that or should I send this stuff over to the 1 TB drive?

[albee1952]

Originally Posted by Burstbucker

When I brought in my wife's desktop computer to the computer shop a couple of months ago, I handed this new 525 GB SSD to the tech and asked him to install it as my D: Drive I was going to have Pro Tools program on the C: Drive and save all of my PT sessions audio to the 525 GB SSD as the D: drive.

But he assured me that it would make much more sense to install the SSD as the C: Drive and move the 1 TB hardrive down into the D: Drive (Data)

Now I'm wondering if he might have steered me wrong. I hope not!

I just checked my computer and pretty much all programs including PT12 are stored on the SSD C: Drive and nothing much is on the 1 TB D: Drive

My PT audio files are all being saved on the Crive, am I ok to leave it like that or should I send this stuff over to the 1 TB drive?

This depends on the 1TB drive and its rpm. As long as its 7200 rpm(and not any sort of "green" drive), my preference with a spinner and an SSD is to use the SSD as the system drive(for snappier performance across the board) and record to a 7200 RPM spinner(it takes a huge number of tracks to choke a good 7200 rpm recording drive). In a perfect world, I would use SSD's for everything, but the economics prevent that(a 2TB spinner costs less than a 512GB SSD). Both sides of this argument have merit and I can only give my 2 cents

Oh, and yes, I WOULD move all your sessions over to your dedicated recording drive

Last cent's worth, on a 2-drive system, sample libraries belong on the C: drive

[Burstbucker]

That is good to know. Thank you for helping me out with this!

I will have to try to figure out what the speed of this spinner hard drive is.

[64GTOBOY]

Google the specs for the PC , it should tell you. In the properties tab of each hard drive(right click menu) you should be able to find the hard drive model if your PC had different configurations available when sold.

[The Weed]

Go to piriform.com and download the free version of Speccy. It will give you the model and serial number of all your drives, their temperatures and SMART health as well as other information on the drives and all the other hardware in your computer.

[lesbrunn]

Originally Posted by Burstbucker

And Pro Tools reverb plug-in on most tracks.

Do you mean you have the reverb plugin inserted on most tracks? You could save more system resources by having just a few reverbs inserted on auxes and using sends and returns. I rarely use more than 2 or 3 different reverbs in a session, and use aux sends on the tracks to control how much I need. Though one might occasionally want to insert a reverb directly on a track, most engineers will use sends instead of inserts.

[Burstbucker]

I am using sends from various tracks to a master reverb track.

[Darryl Ramm]

Why are we three pages in something that sounds like a possible memory leak, and troubleshooting (described under help us help you up the top of each DUC page) of looking for memory leaks by temporarily removing plugin files should have been done... before posting here. Memory consumption has nothing to do with disk hardware setups or the errors reported, so I'm not sure why we are there. Look squirrel...

[Darryl Ramm]

Originally Posted by jryser

And why can one NOT adjust this in PT11 vanilla? So frustrating.

Because Pro Tools 11 (non HD) does not have disk cache. One of the big HD features given to Pro Tools standard users in Pro Tools 12.

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