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I've got a 500 meg drive for the O/S and programs, a terrabyte drive for Audio and a terrabyte drive for samples, local backups and hoarding.

soens
1,234 - One for each project.
 
Sometimes I forget to label them and can't find the one I wanna work on... so I just gets another one.

Mod Bod
I've got a 500 meg drive for the O/S and programs, a terrabyte drive for Audio and a terrabyte drive for samples, local backups and hoarding.

Shirly, you must be only having EZD2 on that drive....

musicman100
I HATE upstairs ... 

I put my 2cents in upstairs for what that's worth.  I'm not respected upstairs most of the time.  [shrugs]  not that it would bother me at all.  I couldn't care less if they respect me upstairs.
 
Bill respects me.  he even apologized.  that's all that matters. 

Beagle

musicman100
I HATE upstairs ... 

I put my 2cents in upstairs for what that's worth.  I'm not respected upstairs most of the time.  [shrugs]  not that it would bother me at all.  I couldn't care less if they respect me upstairs.
 
Bill respects me.  he even apologized.  that's all that matters. 

We allz respectz ya Beagz......ewez R dawg yo!! (Ca$hDawg too!!)
 
Hey look............a squirrel..........
 
 
 
 
 
(chomp...chomp.....chomp..........yumm becan....chomp......chomp......chomp)
 
 
 

My DAW laptop (I still haven't built my next studio desktop) has 2 500gb 7200rpm drives and an 1TB external that is partitioned.
1. internal OS, 2. (partitioned) CW projects (+personal files, pics/art) and external is setup for #3. sample libraries and #4. backup
As far as noticing the difference, my old P4 (built in 2004)had 3 drives, I can't really comment.  I haven't had one drive since my first PC in 2000, and I was new to the DAW world. I figured my PC issues were more about my "noob-ness" than hardware, and I continually upgraded that end of my studio.
 
With prices like they are (drives) I intend to get another external drive and back up more stuff. Right now I am only backing up the OS and CW projects, I figure I might as well have a backup sample library and more room for my art, too.
Michael

"level of expertise comes to mind..."

5 HDD's here + the DVD drive...
 
C:/Programs/Data (1TB)
E:/ Windows Backup (1TB)
G:/ Sonar Audio/Project Folders (640 Gig)
H:/ Finished Mixes/Song Backups (1TB)
I:/ External Drive for more backups (120 Gig)
 
I was told that samples, VST's, etc... should all go on a separate drive instead of the C:/Drive but my performance has been excellent.
 
 
 
 

Four drives here:-
C: OS and programs - 250Gb
D: Sample Libraries - 500Gb
E: Sonar Projects - 500Gb
L: Seagate External 2TB Backup
 
The exceptions are my Toontrack EZX drum libraries, which leave no install option other than to install on the C: drive. You can move them and alter the registry but I always could see problems down the line there, even if just maintenance.
 
Projects are also backed up using Gobbler cloud server now too, so even if fire / flood or burglary took my DAW and backup drive, my projects are safe.
 
I back up just using Windows back up and restore, to the USB Seagate 2Tb external backup drive.
However, I also have a single folder on my desktop that has subfolders for all my software, libraries and all subsequent updates. This is also backed up once a month and kept in a separate location) I figure that if my DAW totally blew up, this one3 folder would be the enabler to rebuild the entire replacement DAW, as with a 3 drive system, I see back up and restore good only for restoring my current DAW following a repair, or replacement of say, one of the discs.
 
Performance. well, just fine, I cant compare with using just a single drive as I started out with this rig, but even recording with the buffers set really low to get 3ms latency going in, 10ms complete round trip, I have no issues.