That WD AV drive looks like a good idea... What I would prefer to do is replace my seagate that i just bought with this AV drive... hopefully i can find a 500 GB model?
This is my media (2nd) drive, where it records to, has all my personal music and movies on it. This is the one i want to be most reliable.
For my system drive, I want speed... i plan on backing it up with an image of it and ideally i'd buy a 3rd drive just for back up purposes, probably not even have it running in the system, only plug it in when i need to do a backup.
I want a fast system drive because there are some huge VST instruments that i use (EZdrummer, True Pianos...) and these load up to half a GB of sound clips into the RAM/pagefile each time i load the songs... It takes a good minute to load songs im working on. These VSTi's are stored on the runner drive. That and I want XP to load faster.
Im not afraid to spend a little money here cause as we all know, if you have to buy it again in a year, then ur not saving much.
What would be a good fast system drive (74-160 GB) that will load programs and windows fast? Thats why i was wondering about the velociraptor- I just wont get a reconditioned one. screw that.
Anyone have an opinion on Samsung? the F3's are fair price, best customer reviews of any brand, and are fast single-threaded uses... which brings me to ask, is multitrack audio redording a single or multi-thread task?
Is multithreading like when you copy one folder betweens drives it goes fast but when you give it a second folder to copy at the same time... it slows to a crawl? I guess this drive is great except for multithreading.. i saw a pretty hefty report on different drives and this one fared pretty well.
This is my media (2nd) drive, where it records to, has all my personal music and movies on it. This is the one i want to be most reliable.
For my system drive, I want speed... i plan on backing it up with an image of it and ideally i'd buy a 3rd drive just for back up purposes, probably not even have it running in the system, only plug it in when i need to do a backup.
I want a fast system drive because there are some huge VST instruments that i use (EZdrummer, True Pianos...) and these load up to half a GB of sound clips into the RAM/pagefile each time i load the songs... It takes a good minute to load songs im working on. These VSTi's are stored on the runner drive. That and I want XP to load faster.
Im not afraid to spend a little money here cause as we all know, if you have to buy it again in a year, then ur not saving much.
What would be a good fast system drive (74-160 GB) that will load programs and windows fast? Thats why i was wondering about the velociraptor- I just wont get a reconditioned one. screw that.
Anyone have an opinion on Samsung? the F3's are fair price, best customer reviews of any brand, and are fast single-threaded uses... which brings me to ask, is multitrack audio redording a single or multi-thread task?
Is multithreading like when you copy one folder betweens drives it goes fast but when you give it a second folder to copy at the same time... it slows to a crawl? I guess this drive is great except for multithreading.. i saw a pretty hefty report on different drives and this one fared pretty well.