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A reason to use NTFS for audio drives [message #68692] Sat, 27 May 2006 11:17
Deej [1] is currently offline  Deej [1]   UNITED STATES
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I'm in the middle of a discussion on another forum about defragging HD's and
therefore destroying the interleaving of simultaneiously recorded audio
files. Someone whose opinion I trust/respect just posted the following:

"If you use NTFS, the fragments will happen contiguously enough that
eventually the filesystem will recognize all the deleted files as a
freespace region and reallocate it."

This would be a big case for NTFS formatting (ie using Paris on Win XP) if
you were tracking large sessions and at the same time, deleting bad takes
along the way (therefore fragging the hell out of a drive while at the same
time recording interleaved audio files).

All of my drives on both DAWs are FAT formatted and I'm not having any
streaming problems, but it's interesting all the same.

Deej
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