Re:Raid0: Is this useful for a DAW
2010/10/05 18:29:50
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Audio production is a real time application. It involves a lot of HDD activity ontop of the normal Windoze HDD activity.
The limiting factor for HDDs is the time wasted moving the read/write head around on the disk surface, linking drives together with any form of RAID does nothing to alter this. It is called "seek time".
To optimize HDD use you need as many independent read/write heads as you can get. In an ideal situation, every entry in Sonar Options that specifies a drive/directory entry should point to a seperate physical HDD. In reality it is good enough to simply seperate out your audio files from windows/system/program files onto a second HDD.
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