partition a drive for Mixcraft & audio recording

[gypsy101]

yay or nay?
we all know a dedicated 2nd hd is the optimal solution but what if it's not possible?

Pros & Cons & how do/did YOU do it?

[AHornsby]

There's surely a right way to do things and even on a dedicated drive (1 TB USB Verbatim portable ) things can get confusing, especially if there are similar takes to deal with. My particular tendency is to save more takes, given the breathing room. It can be toted from a Win machine to a Linux one without too much grief. Anyway, that is probably not the right way to do it but it's ONE way.

Since there wasn't a dedicated drive when MC was originally installed the USB thumber was the most obvious choice... the bigger the better.

-h

[chibear]

You use multiple physical drives to reduce the read/writes to any single drive to avoid a bottleneck. Partitioning doesn't address that. If you have an open USB2 you could always add an external drive if no room in the case. If you would need a SSD, then USB3 would be ideal. Inside the case if you don't have any more drive ports and have an open slot on your mobo, you can add a card with more there.

[aquataur]

I am sure many people work with PC´s that are sub-optimally configured.
You may run into congestion earlier. That´s all.

If you can afford so busy tracks that you have so many tracks streamed simultaneosly, you can surely affort a PC that does it right

Meaning: a second hdd is optimal, a partition will work.

-helmut

[gypsy101]

this is an old article but it does still have some relevancy-
http://www.soundonsound.com/sos/may05/a ... sician.htm

other articles-
http://www.pcworld.com/article/185941/h ... drive.html

http://www.digitalcitizen.life/4-reason ... on-your-pc

3. Improved Performance
Hard disk drives usually work better on smaller chunks of data rather than one big partition. You also get a small boost in performance. For example, having a partition that is about 20%-30% the size of the total hard disk allows short stroking, meaning that the number of reading head repositioning delays (a performance consuming process) is greatly reduced, as you can read in this article on Wikipedia.

4. Organizing Your Data Is Much Easier
As I mentioned at the beginning of this article, partitioning the hard disk drive is a way to tell your computer to treat a single hard disk as more logical disks. This allows you to precisely organize the data on these partitions, especially on large hard disk drives (1TB or more). For example, you can choose to have a partition for your documents, pictures, music or videos, another for your backup data, one for games and for whatever your need. Of course, you will need at least one partition for your operating system.