I have researched the threads here and just bought an external hard drive to help alleviate the burden on my C drive, which still has room, but is filling up fast...
 
It's a 500 GB, 7200 RPM drive, and I named her Elizabeth.
 
So, I guess I'll change the folder path in preferences to route the audio data folders over to her?
 
Should I bother to move ALL my old song file/bundles from my C drive over to Lizzie? Or just start directing new songs over there by clicking "Save As..."? 
 
Any other stuff you guys use your external drives for?
 
 
 

You should always have backups, and they should always be on a different drive. So having the second drive will still not take the storage problem away from your C drive. You will need 3 drives if you want to start deleting files. In other words, you should have 3 copies of each project.
 
With and external  or internal second drive you can do 2 things. Each gives a different result. 
 
"save as" with copy all audio checked will create a back up and remove all unused audio from the project. This is a good way to clean up the files.
But there is a small danger you might leave behind something you want later down the line.
So the second method, a Drag and drop of your entire Sonar Project folder, makes a solid back up with all data kept. If your new drive is a 2 TB then why worry about space.
 
My set up: 
C drive is partitioned with 2nd partition "E" Then a second drive is "H" 
C = 100 Gig.-is OS and programs files,, very little data is stored here
E = 850 G is where all projects stream to all Data stored here. 
H = 1000 G is Back up # 1 
External drive 2 TB back up #2. 
 
At random as I work I'll do a "save as" to the "H" drive. 
I always do this before I shut down. 
I will do a drag and drop of "E" drive to the external drive at least once a week if I have been doing a lot. It depends on the importance of the files. 
 

Great advice! Thanks, Johnny...

I call my hard drive Phillip. Maybe we should let them defrag together and have a little hard drive. We can call it Charlie.
 
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External drive for backup and another one for all my sample libraries.
(No fancy names  thouhg)
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It's a 500 GB, 7200 RPM drive, and I named her Elizabeth.
 
 
 

What port did you attach the drive to?

I use an external drive for sort of a back up - really to store download files and various other bits.  I also manually back up projects to it.
 
I would recommend against partitioning any drives.  I don't think there is a real benefit and once you do it, the only way to undo it is to re-format (I made this mistake on my custom build about 6 years ago and finally undid it when I went to Win 7 last year).  If you need more discrete drives, by more drives - they are cheap and if you aren't putting audio or video stuff on them they don't need to be super fast/high cache ones (otherwise known as black).

I just did a major storage and OS rebuild.  Bought a 240Gb SSD for the C drive with programs and Win7-64.  Use the old C (now D) for doc/project/file storage and an E drive for samples and important backups.... and an external H drive for backups running automatic backup software.  You prob want your docs/projects/samples on an internal SATA instead of a USB drive for speed.
...and I've seen it hundreds of times over many years from people... BACKUP YOUR FILES!  It can and DOES happen.