On Saturday 18 December 2010 08:01:37 david wrote: > rosea.grammostola wrote: > > Do you have a special /home partition? Why or why not? > > Yes. Have /home on a completely separate drive. Did it more for disk > space, and also to help prevent a death of the main drive also taking my > data with it. > > > Will performance be better if you have a special partition for audio? > > I would think it would help by keeping disk seeks and such to a minimum; > the drive heads would only be dealing with your audio files, not getting > moved off to somewhere else because some non-audio program wanted to > read or write something on the same disk. When your system is a bit optimized for audio usage, the amount of non-audio hdd-access is very low during recordings/audio-usage. And the disk-seeks resulting from that are nothing compared to the seeking between different audio-segments when playing an ardour-session with more then just one mono- track. Really reducing disk-seek is only possible when a stripped down system records the input directly to a multi-track file. The same with multiple single-track files already results in much more disk-seeks... Have fun, Arnold
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