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@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@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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