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Disk Cache
Merry Christmas to everyone!
I'm experimenting with disk cache but I have a couple of questions (Yes I did search before posting) 1. How does it help when recording? Say I have 1Gb setted for disk cache, does it react as a buffer for the HDD / SSD? 2. At playback, say if I have 1 Gb allocated and the project has more than that. I suspect it loads from where the cursor is located in PT and if I move it to a part that's not charged into the cache it starts loading that part? Thanks,
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Re: Disk Cache
Doesn’t help with recording; only with playback (once you stop recording, the new file can be cached)
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Re: Disk Cache
It helps with recording by offloading concurrent read IO from drives. Most useful with HDD with large seek time compared to SSD.
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I leave it set to default when recording. I have had errors when the cache gets full. Not sure why, I found that default all but eliminates the errors. I have SSDs and an HDX system on my PC. I leave it at default on my MBPr also for the same reason.
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Re: Disk Cache
Yep Normal. No cache.
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Re: Disk Cache
So from what I understand with SSD it’s better set to normal, right?
Thanks
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It's clearly likely to be better set to a size to hold your whole sessions. Or if that's not possible try it set as large as you can and see. See what works for you. |
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Yes it helps on recording, you can even record to a slow usb stick if all of your session fits in memory... just dont touch anything once PT starts writing to the stick 😂
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So it does act like a buffer for recording, on your opinion. Thanks,
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