[LAU] One or two HD's for audio work

[Moshe Werner]

Ralf you may be right for low track count home studio work, but for
professional work with multiple tracks on playback and record with very low
latency (2.9msec here) is pretty much standard to have seperate drives.
On Fri, Apr 5, 2013 at 3:10 AM, Ralf Mardorf <ralf.mardorf at alice-dsl.net>wrote:

> On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 18:25 -0400, Brett McCoy wrote:
> > On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Grekim Jennings
> > <grekimj at acousticrefuge.com> wrote:
> >
> > > What's the latest consensus?   Is it recommended to have a separate
> drive
> > > for audio on a Linux system?  Separate partition?  I'm just wondering
> about
> > > performance, not practical issues like moving audio around or
> reinstalling
> > > the system, etc.  As we know there are Mac/PC DAW's that need things
> > > separate.  Thanks.
> >
> > Yes, OS on one drive, audio on a separate dedicated drive is best for
> > performance (and if you are using a sampler, the samples should be on
> > their own dedicated drive, if possible). Pretty standard practice for
> > audio or video workstation, regardless of OS.
>
> I don't think that this usually is needed, using one drive with one
> partition IMO usually isn't a bottleneck. It's IMO useful to separate
> drives regarding to convenience, but not regarding to performance.
>
> I might be mistaken, but I can't see a reason for a reasonably machine
> to use 3 HDDs for audio production, to get a better performance.
>
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