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System Drive or "Samples" Drive
Hello!
I'm rebuilding my system. Do I install Xpand 2, Velvet and the other AIR plug-ins on the system drive or on a separate drive? Thanx!
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Derrkins GuyBarTola ******************** PT 2018; Nuendo 8.?; Studio One 3; former Sonar and Sequoia user .... GENELEC 1031A, AVANTONE MIX CUBES (Active); Sibelius 7.0; Dorico; Mac Mini 2.6 GHz Core i7, OS X 10.12.2 Sierra; 16GB RAM; 480 GB System SSD; 1 TB 7200 rpm Audio; 3 TB samples; Roland A-800 Pro controller; GOOD BYE PEE SEA!! |
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Re: System Drive or "Samples" Drive
The plugins themselves always go in the plugins folder which will be in the system drive. The sample used by sample based plugins can be installed on a sample drive.
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Re: System Drive or "Samples" Drive
Thank you for your quick response!
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Derrkins GuyBarTola ******************** PT 2018; Nuendo 8.?; Studio One 3; former Sonar and Sequoia user .... GENELEC 1031A, AVANTONE MIX CUBES (Active); Sibelius 7.0; Dorico; Mac Mini 2.6 GHz Core i7, OS X 10.12.2 Sierra; 16GB RAM; 480 GB System SSD; 1 TB 7200 rpm Audio; 3 TB samples; Roland A-800 Pro controller; GOOD BYE PEE SEA!! |
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Re: System Drive or "Samples" Drive
If you have other instruments with large libraries (Strike, Structure, etc) then you can put the libraries wherever you want.
Is the current thinking that it is better to store libraries and sessions on different drives? My guess is that OS and libraries on the same SSD would be the best way to do it if you only have 2 drives. I currently keep my sessions and sample libraries on the same drive (spinner), but I don't know if this is the way it should be done. It's probably an issue for instruments that stream from disk on a PT Vanilla system. I've never run into an issue, but then again I have timeline caching (PTHD) and I don't typically use many virtual instruments in my sessions.
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Pro Tools HD 12.4, Pro Tools "Vanilla" 12.4, Artist Transport, 2x Artist Mix Studio Blue: RME UCX, Win7 Pro, i7 960, 16GB || Studio Green: RME Babyface, Win10, i7 7700HQ, 16GB |
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Re: System Drive or "Samples" Drive
What is best or even worth bothering to do depends on what VIs you have, what system and disk performance etc. With modern fast SSDs (especially PCIe based SSDs) all this stuff is becoming much less important to worry about, and it may be better to just buy a fast SSD, OTOH if you have lots of sample space needed that SSD space might get too expensive. And are you just worried about start up times or for VIs that stream samples, run time robustness/reliability.
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Re: System Drive or "Samples" Drive
Thanx for chiming in, folk!
I guess, it's the old school thinking that is lingering. I have two internal SSD drives, one for the OS, and one for sessions. I then have a 7200 rpm "spinner" that I'd like to use for Samples, and another as the archives. The points made, about the new available speed's reducing the cause for worry, is a valid one; so is the point about cost.
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Derrkins GuyBarTola ******************** PT 2018; Nuendo 8.?; Studio One 3; former Sonar and Sequoia user .... GENELEC 1031A, AVANTONE MIX CUBES (Active); Sibelius 7.0; Dorico; Mac Mini 2.6 GHz Core i7, OS X 10.12.2 Sierra; 16GB RAM; 480 GB System SSD; 1 TB 7200 rpm Audio; 3 TB samples; Roland A-800 Pro controller; GOOD BYE PEE SEA!! |
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