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Hard Drive Size and Partitioning
Hey all! New to the boards and pro-tools here. I'm sure this has been adressed but I couldnt find a post completely on topic so here goes again.
What size hard drive is optimal for my audio drive? Is there an advantage to a 40gig vs 120 vs 200? I've heard that the smaller drives are faster but I'm not sure thats still a significant consideration. Is the advantage to one or the other theoretical or will it be noticable? (talking strictly IDE here). What about partition size? Does that make a difference and what is a safe size for 32 tracks with about 10 mins or so per song? Thanks! |
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1) Smaller drives defragment faster. 2) When a smaller drive crashes you lose less data! If you do a lot of audio editing that results in small file sizes and/or lots of fade files you will need to defrag once in a while for optimum performance. You'll notice a big difference in defrag times between a 40GB drive and a 200GB drive! Drives eventually do fail. It's a fact of life. You'll lose a lot less data if you have 200GB of data spread across 5, 40GB drives instead of one 200GB drive. If you only have a single 200GB drive and it has a physical head crash, you might possibly lose everything on it. If you spread your risk across several physical drives you lose less if one of them fails. I don't have much of a suggestion for drive sizes. I always have bought 40GB drives. They are available at prices I can afford and justify, and I can easily fit 2 or 3 albums or more material on there including final mix bounces and mastering files. You might need more space if you keep everything you ever record and you do a lot of takes. Good luck! Mike
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I just installed the WD 36Gig SATA drive that spins at 10K, works like a charm and the disk and SATA controller card was 200 bucks from www.newegg.com.
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Sounds good, but it's about 3 times as much money as a 40G 7200rpm EIDE drive. I don't think the performance gain justifies the cost.
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I really need to conduct more tests to push the disk... but for the most part you're probably right.
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by the way, for the record, i totally agree with quickdraw...
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me too, I like 40-60G audio drives, as many as it takes.
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