Moving drives around

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2011/09/30 12:38:35 (permalink)

Moving drives around


I have 3 drives:

1- 750 gigs WD 64MB cache sata 6.0
2- 1tb seagate Barracuda 32MB cache sata 6.0
3 1tb SAMSUNG Spinpoint F3 32MB Cache SATA 3.0Gb/s (fedX will deliver today)

Right now I have the WD drive as my C: drive. I was thinkin, since it's a 64MB cache drive and the others aren't, should I swap things around so the WD is my audio drive, and the Samsung as boot drive, and Seagate samples drive??

Any 'gotchas' with this scenario. Good idea, bad idea?
Or, don't sweat the small stuff?


I would do it using a Windows7 image.


Thanks.


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    fsr76
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    Re:Moving drives around 2011/09/30 12:59:56 (permalink)
    I'd rather have a 1TB Audio drive than 750GB audio drive. The cache does make a difference but not enough to be a show stopper. You'll still be able to create huge audio projects with the 1TB 32MB cache drive. I'd also recommend getting a 2TB external hard drive as a backup for both your audio and sample drive. And then a 750GB external to image your OS drive as backup. Or you could just get one 3TB external hard drive and put all backups on that. Backup very important.

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    timidi
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    Re:Moving drives around 2011/09/30 13:46:52 (permalink)
    Hey Fred. Maybe things'll change in the future (which is now) but, My build of 2006 with a 500gig audio drive is only half full at this point. I can't imagine what I'm gonna do with 2.75TB :) 

    Yea, backup is always good. I keep an image on F and E, BAK audio on F , Bak samples on E. 

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    timidi
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    Re:Moving drives around 2011/09/30 16:45:21 (permalink)
    I'm also curious as to if I can copy all my VST synths data on F: to another drive E: and then re-name E: to F: and F: to E: Wondering if the synths will get confused?

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    Re:Moving drives around 2011/10/12 13:53:38 (permalink)
    I am also going to move some drives around. Current: 500gb C drive and 1tb audio/samples drive Steps: copy 1tb audio drive to new 3tb drive - then copy C drive to old 1tb audio drive - then remove 500gb drive entirely. I will use the app that comes with win 7 to do all of it, and hopefully I won;t have to reregister all my toontrack packs and drums. Or Waves stuff. Or...?

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