RAM N HARD DRIVE SPACE

Quick newb question. just want to know if i have enough ram/hard drive space/processor speed to record a a double album on my hard drive with no latency? only other plug in besides sonitus,psp mixpack n ozone nectar that i plan to purchase/use is psp vintage warmer2. hip hop music.... my pc specs are below. thanx!

Dave,
You're so bad...

i believe my disk space is....

Hard Disk Drives (2)

OS (C:)...639 GB free of 686 GB

HP_RECOVERY (D:)....1.47 GB free of 12.0  GB

ok thanx.  i only use this pc for music mostly and all my sample libraries are on my drum machine hard drive...i mostly record my songs in my mv8000 then track out into sonar with a vocal plug in,plug in on bass and a final plug in on master...so im gathering my main focus is on disk space? so my last question(sorry) is whats the better choice in my situation as far as adding an external drive or upgrading my existing hard drive to 2 tb?.......http://www.amazon.com/Wes...02ZCXK0I/ref=pd_cp_e_2

Most of the majors (HP/SONY) have OEM OS's and put them on a D: partition.  That saves them printing up a DVD or two w/ the system stuff on it.  You can burn your own (1 time, usually) or buy one from the manufactuer.  Burn your own, or if you have a crash you lose the OS and drive.

If it is a laptop, you'll need a 2nd, external hard drive for best performance.  You dont' really want your system drive doing system work, running your DAW and burning audio tracks and playing them back.  A USB or FW drive should be fine, tho I haven't used an external drive for that.  Just get a drive that doesn't use the same interfacing as your sound interface.  They are dirt cheap and will hold enough info for all the tracks you'll need to record a double CD, unless each song consists of hundreds of solid recording.

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i save most of my products an exturnal drive..is this what most of you do as well??or do you save on the c drive and migrate it to the external??

Chuck- It depends on weather it's a desktop or a laptop.
Drives are cheap. So a desktop system should have at least 2 drives or as B_J has listed above 3 is better, Make sure you have a good power supply first. Modern SATA drives make this so easy now. Still an external back up is a good idea as in a worse case scenario your studio is hit by lightning and all 3 drives are toast. This can happen!
Laptops are most always one drive, If a second drive shows then it is most likely a partition. A  Partition will still mean only one head, so no improvement in performance is gained, and if it crashes there is no back up.
So with a laptop there's 2 ways you can go. depending. A lot of cheaper laptops still have slower 5400RPM drives. It is documented that to record at 24 Bits you really need a 7200RPM drive. There fore an external 7200 RPM drive would be the way to go.
But If your laptop sports a 7200 RPM drive, and you only use the computer for recording, I'd go with the portability and dependability of the internal drive. I then back up to the external drive SAP. My main reason is I want to give that USB buss nothing to do while I'm recording. Just my interface. Might be illogical, but I'm a little leery of what a USB buss can handle. Every laptop is a different in the way those USB ports are configured but mine is just one controller.

As I said Hard drives are relatively cheap, I replace my Hard drives at least every 2 years, sometimes sooner if I lust after a faster/ bigger drive.  I use the old drives to store DATA. Either as second drive,  put them on a shelf or use them in external drive en closers. I still have my first 10 Gig drive from 2001. I have never lost anything to a crashed drive and I've had my share of dead drives.