Second hard drive in DAW, partitioning?

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robodelfy

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Hi

I use my laptop as a DAW, for quite intensive music production and DJing, but also for general use.

I have windows 7, programs and vst's installed on my 250gb SSD.

I have a second hard drive, a 750gb HDD, and on this I will keep my audio files, projects, samples etc and all my general use stuff such as music, photos, video etc.

My question is...

Should I partition this 750gb drive into two parts, the first one for my audio files, projects and samples, and then the second partition for my general stuff?

I am just about to do it and had this thought, wondering wether this would improve performance or not.

Any help greatly appreciated

Alex
 
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Should I partition this 750gb drive into two parts, the first one for my audio files, projects and samples, and then the second partition for my general stuff?

Yes it can increase performance, just dont make the last partition for your most used files, like create the first parition for your audio stuff, the closest the parition was from the first sectors of the drives the better, if you understand what i mean, and keep the infrequent accessed files to the last parition
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robodelfy

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Ok thanks

Could you just explain a little more. As I know the outer section of the HDD is faster, therefore would putting my important audio stuff on this section not increase the performance of making music/production?

Im not so much talking about overall performance of the laptop, I just want to squeeze as much as I can out of it for music production?

Thanks
 
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Regarding squeezing as much as you can, what you want to do is keep the files that you work upon the most on the first sectors of your HDD, you can use great freeware called defraggler and it will show you your HDD view and create custom rules, what you want to do is keep the small files that you work upon the most first and move the large files like in my case are ISO and Virtual Machine files, basically any big files to the back and last of the HDD, the frequent files should be at the start, and using custom rules in defraggler this is doable


why this will help?

Cause HDD have needle, and instead of going back and forth, your shortening its path.
 
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robodelfy

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Hi

That program sounds interesting thanks, I will check it out.

But have you got any more info regarding my question about partitions, as I just need to know before I do it if that is a good idea?

When you talk about using the defraggler program, do you mean on one partition?

Thanks
 
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Should I partition this 750gb drive into two parts, the first one for my audio files, projects and samples, and then the second partition for my general stuff?

Yes it can increase performance, just dont make the last partition for your most used files, like create the first parition for your audio stuff, the closest the parition was from the first sectors of the drives the better, if you understand what i mean, and keep the infrequent accessed files to the last parition
 
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