Striped HDs for Sample drive

[JonnyGinese]

Awesome... thanks for all the info.

next time i get into the studio I'll try all of this.

But can i move over MiniGrand and Xpand? or is that not needed? or possible?

[Keybeeetsss]

Originally Posted by JonnyGinese

Awesome... thanks for all the info.

next time i get into the studio I'll try all of this.

But can i move over MiniGrand and Xpand? or is that not needed? or possible?

Possible yes; Needed no..(Just my opinion tho) Even on my Core2duo I left Xpand & Min Grand as 'em were (But again, this is just me)

[BScout]

Originally Posted by MysticTaz

Having a separate drive for samples will help. One thing I suggest for that drive is to format it with large blocks. The NTFS default is 4K. Use something like 64K instead. This will help keep the drive fragmentation low, as many samples will fit into a single disk block.

Unless you are writing & deleting a lot, fragmentation is not an issue. Most drives with samples are write-once situations. Moving files is not an issue since all that's happening is the file location info is changed; not where the file is actually located on the platters.

Large blocks help when files are large; generally that only helps if you are writing monolithic sample files (XPand2 & Mini-Grand for example.) Things like Kontakt (& Structure & BFD) would not be helped (unless you've stored the samples as monolithic files which isn't the default for most libraries -- usually all the individual samples are stored as separate waves.) Large blocks can be a detriment to a drive often (wasted space from unfilled blocks, access time increases due to the need to read in each larger block before doing any operations.) The default setting is there because, in general, it's the optimal size for most uses.