Increase number of -9073 errors

[cplaza]

For my friends usiing Pro Tools HD-10 on Windows 10...I am running on a custom built desktop. My issue was that randomly, while recording or mixing, PT would stop with the -9073 (disk not fast enough) error. I noticed that randomly, the pro tools performance window would show near 0% utilization, then show spikes in the disk utilization bar and the Windows task manager just before I got the error. This was bizarre because my PT sessions data drive is made up of two 1TB 7200 RPM hard drives in a striped RAID-0 configuration, which is fast and ideal for audio and video work. After what seemed to be eons of searches to solve this problem, I came across a YouTube video describing how to get a handle on erratic Windows disk activity https://youtu.be/Enh3gPc3HVs . I applied some of the tweeks to Windows 10, and for days I have not gotten that error. No guarantees, of course, but this might for you as well.

[Darryl Ramm]

Be careful with assumptions that RAID 0 is great for audio volumes... you can get pathological cases of excessive head seeking. Disk cache covers so many sins... maybe even removes the need to stripe at all... and if you do need to stripe you may be better off using Pro Tools round robin scheduling—exactly what it is designed for. Hopefully fast SSDs drives make any needs to stripe or round robin for performance unnecessary. The use of RAID 0 here might well be part of the cause of the problems you were seeing.