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Partition big audio drives?????? [message #73799]

Tue, 10 October 2006 12:35

Rod Lincoln
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Registered: September 2005

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How many of you guys have large audio drives (160 gig or bigger)that partition
them into, oh, say,2 80 gig partitions. The reason I ask, is, I thought the
seek times might be faster if the whole drive wasn't being scanned. Anybody?
I've got my 160 gig audio drive as 1 big partition.
Rod

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Re: Partition big audio drives?????? [message #73828 is a reply to message #73799]

Wed, 11 October 2006 04:17

John [1]
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Registered: September 2005

Senior Member

I think that's a well known trick. Make a tiny partition (20gb) and use that
to stream audio onto, then copy the files over to your "storage" partition
when done. Or just have a tiny hard drive for streaming onto.

John

"Rod Lincoln" <rlincoln@nospam.kc.rr.com> wrote:
>
>How many of you guys have large audio drives (160 gig or bigger)that partition
>them into, oh, say,2 80 gig partitions. The reason I ask, is, I thought
the
>seek times might be faster if the whole drive wasn't being scanned. Anybody?
>I've got my 160 gig audio drive as 1 big partition.
>Rod

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Re: Partition big audio drives?????? [message #73830 is a reply to message #73828]

Wed, 11 October 2006 05:38

Rod Lincoln
Messages: 883
Registered: September 2005

Senior Member

Ha, that's one I missed then.....I thought I had an epiphany (or whatever).
So it works???
"John" <no@no.com> wrote:
>
>I think that's a well known trick. Make a tiny partition (20gb) and use
that
>to stream audio onto, then copy the files over to your "storage" partition
>when done. Or just have a tiny hard drive for streaming onto.
>
>John
>
>"Rod Lincoln" <rlincoln@nospam.kc.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>>How many of you guys have large audio drives (160 gig or bigger)that partition
>>them into, oh, say,2 80 gig partitions. The reason I ask, is, I thought
>the
>>seek times might be faster if the whole drive wasn't being scanned. Anybody?
>>I've got my 160 gig audio drive as 1 big partition.
>>Rod
>

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Re: Partition big audio drives?????? [message #73837 is a reply to message #73830]

Wed, 11 October 2006 07:10

John [1]
Messages: 2229
Registered: September 2005

Senior Member

I don't know if it works. It should. I'm too busy crashing in Paris whenever
I try to do logical things like loop in freeform while recording. I need
a new Daw badly. Paris just pisses me off continually. DJ, Send new DAW
quick !!!

john

"Rod Lincoln" <rlincoln@nospam.kc.rr.com> wrote:
>
>Ha, that's one I missed then.....I thought I had an epiphany (or whatever).
>So it works???
>"John" <no@no.com> wrote:
>>
>>I think that's a well known trick. Make a tiny partition (20gb) and use
>that
>>to stream audio onto, then copy the files over to your "storage" partition
>>when done. Or just have a tiny hard drive for streaming onto.
>>
>>John
>>
>>"Rod Lincoln" <rlincoln@nospam.kc.rr.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>How many of you guys have large audio drives (160 gig or bigger)that partition
>>>them into, oh, say,2 80 gig partitions. The reason I ask, is, I thought
>>the
>>>seek times might be faster if the whole drive wasn't being scanned. Anybody?
>>>I've got my 160 gig audio drive as 1 big partition.
>>>Rod
>>
>

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Re: Partition big audio drives?????? [message #73852 is a reply to message #73830]

Wed, 11 October 2006 11:32

Deadmeat
Messages: 32
Registered: September 2005

Member

I use very large SATA RAID arrays (over 1TB) and can stream with
very high chnl counts. I think that IDE drives work a little better when
cut into smaller partitions, but I have seen
virtually no diff in the SATA configs.

"Rod Lincoln" <rlincoln@nospam.kc.rr.com> wrote:
>
>Ha, that's one I missed then.....I thought I had an epiphany (or whatever).
>So it works???
>"John" <no@no.com> wrote:
>>
>>I think that's a well known trick. Make a tiny partition (20gb) and use
>that
>>to stream audio onto, then copy the files over to your "storage" partition
>>when done. Or just have a tiny hard drive for streaming onto.
>>
>>John
>>
>>"Rod Lincoln" <rlincoln@nospam.kc.rr.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>How many of you guys have large audio drives (160 gig or bigger)that partition
>>>them into, oh, say,2 80 gig partitions. The reason I ask, is, I thought
>>the
>>>seek times might be faster if the whole drive wasn't being scanned. Anybody?
>>>I've got my 160 gig audio drive as 1 big partition.
>>>Rod
>>
>

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Re: Partition big audio drives?????? [message #73866 is a reply to message #73852]

Wed, 11 October 2006 15:56

Rod Lincoln
Messages: 883
Registered: September 2005

Senior Member

thanks...good to know
rod
"deadmeat" <scott@postmodernblues.com> wrote:
>
>I use very large SATA RAID arrays (over 1TB) and can stream with
>very high chnl counts. I think that IDE drives work a little better when
>cut into smaller partitions, but I have seen
>virtually no diff in the SATA configs.
>
>"Rod Lincoln" <rlincoln@nospam.kc.rr.com> wrote:
>>
>>Ha, that's one I missed then.....I thought I had an epiphany (or whatever).
>>So it works???
>>"John" <no@no.com> wrote:
>>>
>>>I think that's a well known trick. Make a tiny partition (20gb) and use
>>that
>>>to stream audio onto, then copy the files over to your "storage" partition
>>>when done. Or just have a tiny hard drive for streaming onto.
>>>
>>>John
>>>
>>>"Rod Lincoln" <rlincoln@nospam.kc.rr.com> wrote:
>>>>
>>>>How many of you guys have large audio drives (160 gig or bigger)that
partition
>>>>them into, oh, say,2 80 gig partitions. The reason I ask, is, I thought
>>>the
>>>>seek times might be faster if the whole drive wasn't being scanned. Anybody?
>>>>I've got my 160 gig audio drive as 1 big partition.
>>>>Rod
>>>
>>
>

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