I would mount the drive with noatime but your drive might be broken, even if the output of sudo smartctl -A /dev/sdX or sudo smartctl -a /dev/sdX seems to be ok. I agree with David regarding the advantage of a SSD. I own two _inexpensive_ TOSHIBA-TL100 (OCZ TL100) 240 GB. Free as in beer Linux software for OCZ SSDs is provided by the Arch User Repository, it's useful, since the output of smartctl for those SSDs is cryptic. I disagree on the statement that increasing the frames has got no negative impact. It could affect MIDI jitter, when recording MIDI tracks with external MIDI equipment to audio tracks. -- $ pacman -Q linux{,-rt{,-cornflower,-pussytoes}}|awk '{print $2}' 4.14-2 4.13.13_rt5-1 4.11.12_rt16-1 4.14_rt1-1 _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx https://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user