So many hard drives, so little knowledge...

[jollo]

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[moosemaster]

So NO one has any advice about drive formatting for this thread?
(I was searching the DUC for same)

[lwilliam]

Originally Posted by zv yoda

Hi folks... was wondering if anybody had any advice about the samples - should I keep them on the system drive, or put them on the firewire drive?

Also, I just realised that my iMac has only one firewire 400 port (it also has a firewire 800 port). I already have my Command 8 connected via the firewire 400, so what's the best way to connect the external drive?... can I daisy chain via the Command 8, or do I need to get a powered firewire hub (which are very scarce here in Ireland it seems!)

Thanks

I keep my sample libs (Kontakt2, EWQL Gold, DrumCore, Trilogy, & Stylus RMX) all on my system drive. I haven't noticed any performance issues with them yet, but I don't do much orchestral scoring with multiple Kontakt instance for example - usually no more than 6-8 tracks of streaming samples.

I know people who have huge libraries and large midi track counts using streaming samples and will dedicate a separate drive to them. That would help with performance certainly, but I haven't run into issues myself. On my system, other things will bog down before the disk drive i/o.

[JrummerJ]

I have a 500GB OWC firewire drive and I keep all my samples on it as well as my sessions. Mainly because my macbook pro only has a 120GB drive.

J