I am thinking about reinstalling my OS, Win 7 64 pro.
 
1 250 gig SSD
1 one terabit sata
1 one terebit sata
3 one tera bit usb drives
32 gigs DDR3
I4 3.8 intel
Where is the best place to install Sonar, on which drive?
or do I really need to but another SSD? I am always running out of space on the SSD
 
The sata drives are...Western Digital WD VelociRaptor WD5000BHTZ 500GB 10000 RPM 64MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 2.5" Enterprise Hard Drive 

Well, it seems like common wisdom is to put your OS on the SSD drive. If you just put that there, then the 250GB should be plenty.
 
I'd make the 1TB internal drives for audio and samples respectively. Actually I'd consider dumping the USB drives and/or those and moving up to at least 2TB drives. Better yet get three of them: one for audio, one for samples and virtual instrument data folders, and the third for internal backup.

Hi Billy,
 
What has worked for many of us Sonar users is a 3 drive system:
 
C: Drive - your OS and all software
D: Drive - all you Sonar projects
E: Drive - all your samples (the biggest drive(s) you have)
 
If you can swing the cost for a large SSD (1, 2, or 3 TB drive) and like to have very quick access to samples (load time), then that would be the way to go. If you're mostly working with audio and not so much in samples, then a regular HDD would work just fine. 
 
 
EDIT: looks like Wicked said the same/similar thing and beat me to it. :))
 
 

Ig you are filling up a 250 GB SSD, then you almost certainly have things on there beyond the OS and applications.
 
I have a 120 GB SSD that only has Windows and all applications on it, and I still have 60-70 GB left on it, and could further tweak it if needed.
 
I DID alter the 'Location' of my various user folders (documents, pictures, downloads, etc...) to live on a second hard drive - I did it with alter Properties, using the Location tab.  Some folks use mlink to do it, but I never bothered doing that (though it works fine for them).
 
Also, take great care when installing synths with large sample libraries, to make sure you control placement of those libraries to be installed on any other drive than your SSD with the OS on it.  As others pointed out, you likely want sample libraries to live on your largest disk drive.  There is usually an option to alter library disk placement during install of software such as Kontakt, etc.
 
Bob Bone
 

Thanks for the feedback. 
When the computer died the last time I just was not thinking correctly. I should have gotten a large SSD and paid the price.
The small SSD is really the only problem for what I do. The three drive system idea looks the best fix for me with an up grade to a bigger SSD.
 
I have little issues with building computers but every day software programs just get larger and larger. Planning for the future...lol
Coming from a world of two inch analog tape I got nothing to really complain about...lol
 
Thanks,
 
Billy

Just be mindful of where programs are caching audio/video files. A 250GB SSD for O/S and all apps is plenty. A lot of programs dump their "temp" files on the C drive as well, but audio and video files are the biggies to watch.

Thanks guys for all the good feedback.
 
Some extra cash may be coming my way soon so I have my list ready.
 
Thanks,
 
Billy