I have rebuilt my installation from one ssd to a 500gb raid with 2 wildfire ssd. I have also added to western digital enterprise 10000 rpm drives which are 4 times faster than my original drive secondary drive.
 
It might be subjective but should i install the vst plugins and the content away from the c: drive and if so how do i do that.
 
As a novice I always found sonar difficult on installation and thats with default directories.
 
If i get the sequence wrong then plugins are just not found.
 
I have the producer version along with rapture, z3 v2 and dimension pro as a purchased version as well.
 
advice on where and how would be great so i get the utmost from my system.
 
Quad core intel 950
8gb ddr2
64 bit win 7
2 x wildfire 240gb ssd c: drive
2 x western digital raptor raid 0 f:drive
1 x seagate 1.5 terra hardrive d: drive (this is an appalling drive, seems to hibernate on its own or just plain drowsy)
gtx 260 oc btg graphics card
 
windows index at 7.2 2.83 ghz stock speed
 
 
 
 
 

your running 2 drives on raid )0( or )1( i have my raid as o but it wasnt a great choice,i was after the high trasfer rate
 i have basicly everything on my main raid C drive
 with all my expantions and other plugins on the D drive
 with a path pionting into your D drive cakewalk
there are many ways you can go, i think iv installed sonar over years every screw up way possible

keep it simple 
 here is a nice read on  plugin scaning, that help know what what at startup.
with a raid 0 i dont even see how fast they load , it helps to keep it down to a few paths
http://blog.cakewalk.com/why-you-should-use-scan-vst-plug-ins-on-startup-in-sonar-x1-really/

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ASUS990 6 core with delta
2ssd drives 16 gigs RAM
BX5a monitorsYAMAHA 4416

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There's no benefit to installing plug ins and sample content away from the C drive.

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John T


There's no benefit to installing plug ins and sample content away from the C drive.

other than space if you have it set to raid 1 you get only in my case 128 gigs not near enough for sonar and its friends
but yes having all on c and use the other drive for projetcs and audio, is easyest. agreed

SONARX1-64 WIN 7-64 DELTA-1010lt 
ASUS990 6 core with delta
2ssd drives 16 gigs RAM
BX5a monitorsYAMAHA 4416

http://soundcloud.com/american-metal/high-on-the-wire-pre

Ok then i will keep everything on C as i have 400gb free and it transfers at 500mb per second and I will keep the second raid volume for audio, could you just expand on that? what you mean by audio? is that where i will record too?

Also which should i install first dim pro beatscape etc or x1 and then the others?