Question For Scott Garrigus ? Hardrive

In you're book you suggested adding 2 more hardrives for other storage and routing and was wondering what size you suggest ? I was thinking about a Terabyte would do it so do you think I'm good there ?  Can get one for about $ 85.

While TB drives are so cheap it's also worth considering what it's going to take to back up a drive of that size, ie the amount of time it takes.

Projects can be stored on slower drives and larger storage drive/s until needed for editing then copy to a smaller and faster drive.

I think my next evolutiuonary change in my computer setup is to make my OS drive an SSD. as for samples etc I can't see the point as I have nearly 1 TB of samples belonging to various programs. The biggest SSD's I've seen are in the 250 GIG size and far too expensive to talk about acquireing in TB orders of magnitude.

mudgel

I think my next evolutiuonary change in my computer setup is to make my OS drive an SSD. as for samples etc I can't see the point as I have nearly 1 TB of samples belonging to various programs. The biggest SSD's I've seen are in the 250 GIG size and far too expensive to talk about acquireing in TB orders of magnitude.

True. There's also another consideration here: during a typical session, you're only loading up each lump of sample data the once, after which it just sits there in RAM. So yeah, while it would of course be nice to have these loads happen quickly, they're not a constant interruption.

On the other hand, I find I'm constantly adding new plug ins, launching and closing a wave editor, and using a bunch of other apps here and there for this and that purpose.

So apps and OS on an SSD is something you feel a tangible and consistent benefit from. Storage of big data I think less so.

LOL! I am Scotticus too.

Hey Bule... thanks for reading my book!

Yes, 1TB is plenty. SSD drives are nice but expensive. I haven't seen the need to move that route yet. Here's what I have...

Drive 1: 500GB SATA for programs, plug-ins, and Windows, etc.
Drive 2: 1TB SATA for projects, audio, etc. I also have video on here. Haven't had a problem, but if something comes up, I would probably add a fourth drive like ProjectM has in his system.
Drive 3: 3TB SATA for streaming sample libraries. Yeah, I have a lot of these and some are very large.

I also have a bunch of external drives for backup and for final archiving, I burn each project to DVD or Blu-ray (two copies).

Scott

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riojazz
Scott, I predict once you try a SSD, you'll be convinced to convert.

Hey Matt,

Oh, I'm sure I would love SSDs, but not at the prices and sizes at which they are now available. I'll wait until they get bigger and much less expensive.

Scott

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Scott R. Garrigus
* Author of the Cakewalk Sonar and Sony Sound Forge Power book series: http://www.garrigus.com/
* Author of the Cakewalk Sonar ProAudioTutor video tutorial series: http://www.proaudiotutor.com/
* Publisher of the DigiFreq free music technology newsletter: http://www.digifreq.com/digifreq/
* Publisher of the NewTechReview free consumer technology newsletter: http://www.newtechreview.com/newtechreview/

Also, do NOT get a GREEN drive(Western Digital Caviar Green) for anything other than backing up material.  They are a variable speed drive and play havoc with streaming audio. Stick with the 7200rpm drives(or faster) but not variable speed. 

I bought 3 SSD's.

120 gig for System and Sonar
120 gig for projects
250 gig for Samples

One great thing about SSD's is if you have a system crash you are back up and running in under a minute. Gotta love that. Also I can load a huge project in under 10 seconds flat. Amazing. And having 3 in my system allows me to easliy and quickly make a back up of the current project so no fears of losing anything.
 
And they are as quiet and cool as a USB stick, so that's a great added bonus! I love them.