PTLE and Hard Drives

[n3xus]

Would I get better performance if I had 2 seperate SATA drives, one with the OS and PTLE running and the other being for audio, or would it be the same if I hade 1 SATA drive with 2 seperate partitions, one for the OS and PTLE and the othe for audio? And would I get any performance gains if I made seperate partitions for plugins and samples or are they best left with the OS and PTLE partition?

[scottedog]

Keep your audio files on a seperate drive. I run three, OS/PT, audio & one for backup. I think some guys have a seperate drive with their samples/sounds/etc. but I'm not sure how much benefit you get from that.

[mkosacek]

I am running 2 SATA drives in my system. One for OS, the other for audio recording. Since my OS drive is rather large too, I do bounces and backups ("save session copy as") to that first drive also. it's been working great and I have done 10 simultaneous tracks (recording) to that one WD 250G 7200 rpm drive.

[albee1952]

And to answer the other half of the question. Partitioning your system drive will not improve performance. You definitly want to run sessions from a seperate hard driv, which may be partitioned for disk managment. I have my 160 gig audio drive patrtitioned to 2x80gig.