I don't know if I need it or not but I was thinking of adding a hard drive for my audio. I'm not sure if it will help with anything or really need too. Suggestions? My specs are posted. Thanks for any input!

If I were in the market for an external hard drive, I would buy an external hard drive enclosure and buy a standard (i.e. nonGreen) 7200RPM hard drive separately to put in it.

If you're not getting any performance issues (like dropouts or stuttering audio, etc.), then you don't need it.

When you start working on larger projects, you'll find it becomes a necessity to have separate drives.

Scott

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I wouldn't use an external drive for audio. Too slow, too unreliable (I'm on my third one in less than 2 years). I do use one for backups, though, and for that they are indispensable.

Much better to install an internal drive for audio. If you only have one drive in there now, it's quite likely there's an empty bay for another one. Most computer cases will support 3 disk drives internally before you have to get creative.

Thanks Dave! I don't have anything on this PC except essential programs. I want to start getting into more complicated projects other than recording performances and or laying down tracks for a basic rhythm section. Internal drive is what I think I need. As far as size and whatnot I will have to research that a bit. Thanks

After you've installed your 1Tb 7200rpm drive, don't forget to tell Sonar where your Audio nowl lives under Preferences > Folder Locations

I have 2 internals and one external on my DAW. I do seem to recall a spare HD connector in the box should I decide to drop another internal into the box. Right now, I have more than sufficient storage real estate for years to come..... even given a 1GB per song file size, which is generally not the case. 

C has XP and the programs I run (audio DAW stuff only) 

E has the huge sample libraries and storage folders for my projects (archived)

F/external is a backup for C image and E projects and libraries. 



I allow X1 to use C for current and recent project storage. I move them to E when I'm pretty sure I'm done working on them.... I don't zip them, I simply drag the folders. 

A second hard drive for audio is one of the best things you can do.  I use to run a 386 w/ a second hard drive.  Audio streaming was fine - I never ran out of tracks.  Now putting on eqs, or gods forbid a reverb, would run out of cpu doubleplus quick.

The other good thing is you can drag your projects over to the first drive for backup purposes.  The external drive then becomes the back up to the back up.

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