Am 05.04.2013 03:10, schrieb Ralf Mardorf: > On Thu, 2013-04-04 at 18:25 -0400, Brett McCoy wrote: >> On Thu, Apr 4, 2013 at 6:09 PM, Grekim Jennings >> <grekimj@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: >> >>> What's the latest consensus? Is it recommended to have a separate drive >>> for audio on a Linux system? Separate partition? I'm just wondering about >>> performance, not practical issues like moving audio around or reinstalling >>> the system, etc. As we know there are Mac/PC DAW's that need things >>> separate. Thanks. >> >> Yes, OS on one drive, audio on a separate dedicated drive is best for >> performance (and if you are using a sampler, the samples should be on >> their own dedicated drive, if possible). Pretty standard practice for >> audio or video workstation, regardless of OS. > > I don't think that this usually is needed, using one drive with one > partition IMO usually isn't a bottleneck. This may be true in 99.9 out of 100 minutes of recording until that statistically unlikely event happens, that some operation is keen to load a lib from the disk while another important operation wants to load another 20 seconds 96/32 audio data for 32 tracks from the very same disk. While I agree, that Linux in pretty good in using RAM for caching and we live in times where a complete 4-min track on 20+ tracks fits into a RAM-disk I would not take chances. I have a SSD for all the software and the OS and a conventional drive for the audio/video data plus 8Gig RAM and so I do not need to even think about, whether bad side-effects could occure or not. Not that expensive and good for my nerves... ;-) > It's IMO useful to separate > drives regarding to convenience, but not regarding to performance. > > I might be mistaken, but I can't see a reason for a reasonably machine > to use 3 HDDs for audio production, to get a better performance. > > _______________________________________________ > Linux-audio-user mailing list > Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx > http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user > _______________________________________________ Linux-audio-user mailing list Linux-audio-user@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx http://lists.linuxaudio.org/listinfo/linux-audio-user
