KeithAdv
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Best drive for sample library?
I think the answer to this is obvious, but those are the ones I always get wrong!
Conventional wisdom says for optimum performance when installing a DAW, keep your audio application on one drive and use another drive for audio data.
To extrapolate from that, when I install large sample libraries with streaming samples (say, Kontakt 3), that means I put the vsti part on the application drive along with Sonar and the library part on the audio disk with my other audio data.
And that will give best audio performance. Right?
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ba_midi
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RE: Best drive for sample library?
2008/01/11 13:15:55
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That should be fine.
Even finer would be 3 drivers: 1 for OS/Apps, 1 for Audio Data (projects, etc), 1 for Samples, etc.
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RE: Best drive for sample library?
2008/01/11 13:25:19
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The vst.dll file can go anywhere, most likely on your system drive.
The library itself should go on another, fast drive.
Like ba_midi says, 3 drives is the best way to go.
Also, before you install the libraries, either use a freshly formatted drive, or defrag the drive first.
Then install your libraries and then anything else you might have on there. I use my sample drive to archive my backups.
Since your sample files are only read from and not written to, they will not fragment so performance will stay the same.
The worst thing you can do is to install a monster like Ivory on a highly fragmented drive.
The performance will suck.
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KeithAdv
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RE: Best drive for sample library?
2008/01/11 15:05:00
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Maybe I'll add another drive somewhere in the future, then. I have that setup on my old DAW (IDE drives), but I only bought two drives on the speed monster I'm building even as we speak. If I notice any problems, I'll just throw in a third drive for samples libs. Thanks for the tips!
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AndyW
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RE: Best drive for sample library?
2008/01/11 15:09:55
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ORIGINAL: wormser
Like ba_midi says, 3 drives is the best way to go.
+1. If you only have two, make one OS/Apps/Samples and the other one audio.
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KeithAdv
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RE: Best drive for sample library?
2008/01/11 15:18:42
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Like ba_midi says, 3 drives is the best way to go.
+1. If you only have two, make one OS/Apps/Samples and the other one audio.
Yet that contradicts what ba_midi and wormser say about two drives--they're saying sample libs go on the audio disk, not the apps disk....
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AndyW
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RE: Best drive for sample library?
2008/01/11 15:26:28
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ORIGINAL: KeithAdv
ORIGINAL: AndyW
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Like ba_midi says, 3 drives is the best way to go.
+1. If you only have two, make one OS/Apps/Samples and the other one audio.
Yet that contradicts what ba_midi and wormser say about two drives--they're saying sample libs go on the audio disk, not the apps disk....
Some samplers stream from disk. While it may be "fine" as Billy said(and it probably will be...I'm not here to start a fight...  ) but my logic says that the optimal solution is three drives. OS/APP, Samples, Audio. If you only have two, I view the samples as part of the "App" and to keep anything from trying to hit the audio disk while it is streaming actual tracks of audio, I would put the samples on the OS/APP drive. If there is any sample loading activity it is separate from the audio drive. That's just my philosophy about it. YMMV.
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RE: Best drive for sample library?
2008/01/11 16:58:34
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ORIGINAL: ba_midi
Even finer would be 3 drivers: 1 for OS/Apps, 1 for Audio Data (projects, etc), 1 for Samples, etc.
+1 That's exactly what I have right now.
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RE: Best drive for sample library?
2008/01/11 18:37:52
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I just replaced my library drive(s) with a single SATA 360 gig Seagate and now Ivory and BFD load in 1-2 seconds.
My previous library drive(s) were a RAID IDE config and one of the IDEs failed ruining the whole library.
I can now switch presets on the fly in BFD or Ivory with no glitches and 1-2 second load time which is really satisfying.
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