seperate drive for audio streaming ?

Yes! Sonar runs smoother if the computer can consentrate on the what you are doing in the program separately from the audio designation. I tried doing everything in a sony vaio at first with a huge drive and it would hang up and run slooooooow. Switched to a sweetwater creation station dual core and 2 -200gig glyph hard drives separate from the computers hard drive and we are smooth sailing. Sonar 8 runs much smoother than 6 and 7 did.

ok so if i get it do i have to install my cakewalk on it or?how does that part work?
my question is how do i tell the puter to only use the new HD for audio streaming.
do i just tell cakewalk in the startup applet where it asks where to save file to,To the new drive ?is it that easy?

Load Cakewalk on your computer and save your files to an external hard drive. Its that simple. Probably a good idea to back-up latest versions to another drive for safety and to share with other band mates.

Yes-Global options-Folders-project files. You can right click on the ellipsis button to the right of the field. Then you can browse for the folder (or hard drive) you want to designate. So if that folder is created on a separate hard drive and you assign it that way it will write it in the project files field for you. Make sure either way the " C":\Cakewalk Projects has changed to the letter of your new hard drive example= "J":Cakewalk Projects

I would go with (and I did ) the firewire option. Much faster!!!!I use the portable external hard drives. I can take to other studios for fresh ears. I also share important sessions and latest versions to yet another external for safety reasons. No latency issues here.