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Old 04-24-2015, 04:08 PM
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Default 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?

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Old 04-24-2015, 04:16 PM
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Default 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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Old 04-24-2015, 04:22 PM
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Default Re: System Drive or "Samples" Drive

Thank you for your quick response!
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Old 04-24-2015, 05:43 PM
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Default 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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Old 04-24-2015, 05:50 PM
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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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Old 04-24-2015, 06:00 PM
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Default 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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Old 04-24-2015, 06:49 PM
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Default Re: System Drive or "Samples" Drive

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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.
So if I were you, and if space on your SSD are at a premium, I would figure out what streams from disk and what loads to RAM. Whatever loads to RAM that doesn't need to be on the boot drive, put on the spinner. Whatever will be read directly from the drive, put on the non-boot SSD (not counting the stuff that needs to be on the boot drive, like Pro Tools and plug-ins). Seek and read times on a quality 7200+ RPM drive are pretty inconsequential if you only encounter them once per session.
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