System Requirements and full System Setup
 

Hi,

What are exactly the PT 10 System Requirements for Windows 7 ?

I am unsure after having read the User Guides, it says sthing about Digibase or a test, and besides I am uncertain as to if there's a problem in running PT on 1 HDD where there's a partition for the OS, one partition for Projects and the last partition for Soundbanks and Loops and so on.

Help would really be appreciated.

Re: System Requirements and full System Setup
 

You really need a second physical sessions hard drive for optimum Pro Tools performance, and having a third drive for sample libraries would be even better. Here's a link to the hardware requirements:

Pro Tools 10 System Requirements

Re: System Requirements and full System Setup
 

What he said^^^^:D 2 separate drives is the minimum, unless your sessions are really small(like 8 tracks or less). Recording to a partition of the same drive with the OS is worse than just recording to C:. Look at it from the tech side; there is 1 read/write head on a platter(inside a hard drive), regardless of how many partitions, and it has to constantly move to retrieve data(for OS function), so if you ask a single drive to do OS and recording, now that head must take care of OS needs, AND streaming playback, AND writing new audio(during a record pass)! Not a good way to get performance. Now with an SSD(which are now approved for recording), it may be a different story, but a $200(sale priced) SSD has about 256GB of available space, while the same $200 will buy a pair of 1TB WD Caviar Black drives(an excellent choice for recording). Spend your money as it suits your needs, just consider all the options:o

BTW, if you use HD software or the CPTK, AND your system has lots of RAM(8GB or more) then you allocate some RAM for caching audio, which gives a boost in performance, no matter what drive you record to.