Hello,
I just bought a laptop with a dual hard drive. I was wondering what the best way to set it up would be.
Should I put Sonar on the c drive, with Windows? Or, put it on the other internal drive.
What about project folders? Should they be on the extra internal drive or would it be better to put them on an external usb drive like I have been doing with my older laptop?
The new machine has usb ports, but no firewire. I have the audio interface using one of the 4 usb ports.
Thanks

C: Drive - All programs, including Sonar, OS & plugins
D: Drive - Cakewalk Project files
External Drive : Backups

I also have a laptop with two hard drives. What Bristol said.

I'll add that for convenience I keep all of my installers on the second drive (the one with the Sonar songs/projects).

I have the OS and all programs on the first drive.

And very importantly, I have Acronis backing everything up to a series of external drives. It has bailed me out numerous times when an install went awry, or something unfortunate happened for some reason that would take an IT expert to figure out. In those situations I've been able to use Acronis to get back to where I was before the incident very painlessly.

+1 to the above advice, with an addition that I do, which is that I keep all of the sample libraries and such also on my data drive, and not on the OS drive.
 
That's a good use of that configuration, and should work well.  It's how I have my desktop set up, as well, and I never have any performance issues, even with the samples streaming from the same drive as where the projects and their audio go.
 
And yes, backing up to the external drive is an essential thing to do, unless you like rebuilding things from scratch.
 
Bob Bone
 

Thanks for the replies everyone.
I really appreciate the advice.

And think twice before you use a bun file for back up  :>