Anyone running multiple hard drives?

[6505smith]

Im running a 60g solid state drive that contains my operating system (windows 7) and a 500g hard disk drive that contains everything else (protools, eleven rack, plugins etc.)

My problems is that ever since I made the splits in hard drives my protools seems laggy and when I have my click track counting off for recording it will not start recording my track till 2 beats past the count off, and also pro tools does not see my eleven rack (my computer still recognizes the eleven rack). but it will record my 11r tone and even if my track is not record enabled it still plays the 11r tone which leads me to assume that pro tools is reading it as a audio in (i think). so when i do enable the track for recording it has a double layer of guitar tone.

Any thoughts out there in duck land about this issue?

My best thought is to get a bigger solid state drive and run both my o.s and protools.

Any one else ever have this issue?

[bakerja]

I typically reserve one drive exclusively for recording. I have in the past put VI's on their own drive but I'm using an iMac now and use system drive with PT and VI's installed, and a usb3 drive for recording. Everything rocks along just fine.

[Drew Mazurek]

OS and app on dedicated drive and a separate drive dedicated to audio.

[TOM@METRO]

Originally Posted by 6505smith

Im running a 60g solid state drive that contains my operating system (windows 7) and a 500g hard disk drive that contains everything else (protools, eleven rack, plugins etc.)


My best thought is to get a bigger solid state drive and run both my o.s and protools.

You have answered your own question.

[albee1952]

Pro Tools itself should be installed on the C: drive. Sessions need to be on a separate drive. If you use lots of sample-based VI's, the samples are best installed to a 3rd drive. If you only have 2, then install the samples on the C: drive. In all cases, the recording drive should do nothing else but record audio.

[JFreak]

Originally Posted by TOM@METRO

You have answered your own question.

Yes, and answered wrong

Avid recommendation is to have OS and PT on a dedicated drive, and audio session(s) on another drive(s). Consolidating everything on single massive SSD is against Avid supported systems paper.

Wherever your system is, it is perfectly fine. What you need to think about is your audio:

1) always store your session on a dedicated audio drive. ALWAYS!
2) if you use VI's or samplers that need to stream lots of audio, put those on their own dedicated drives. if you have lots of streaming, you may need more drives.
3) if your session is very large, you will probably need more drives. use round-robin allocation to make it easier to split files between drives. that said; your track count needs to be in high tens or even some hundreds before you should feel the need.

[TOM@METRO]

Actually he has the right idea. Pro Tools and the OS should always reside on the same drive. Having Pro Tools installed on a drive other than the OS drive is asking for problems. Considering plug-ins, 60GB SSD will not usually do for this, he will need to go bigger.

Of course audio should always reside on a separate approved drive, and samples on another.

Back up drives are another necessity both for the system and also for the audio (sessions).

I use 5 internal drives in my systems to accommodate these needs.

[zedhed]

Originally Posted by TOM@METRO

Actually he has the right idea. Pro Tools and the OS should always reside on the same drive. Having Pro Tools installed on a drive other than the OS drive is asking for problems.

Except that doesn't appear to be what he's saying;

Originally Posted by 6505smith

Im running a 60g solid state drive that contains my operating system (windows 7) and a 500g hard disk drive that contains everything else (protools, eleven rack, plugins etc.)

[TOM@METRO]

Originally Posted by 6505smith

My best thought is to get a bigger solid state drive and run both my o.s and protools.

This is the statement to which I am referring.

[zedhed]

Now that makes sense Tom