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Anonymous wrote:In my studio, I have 4 7200rpm drives all with 8mb cache. 1 is the system drive, 1 is the audio drive, 1 is the bounce to disk drive, and the other is the swap file.

swap file?

a swap file is a section that your hard drive moves things from ram to disk and disk to ram. when you have 1 gig of programs running, and only 512mb of ram your computer will store the unused programs in a swap file until you try to access them again, then it will take them out of your swap and place them back in ram. that's the basics. your swap file is a few others things also, windows things... bla bla, I can get detailed, but that is a basic explanation... you don't NEED to have a drive dedicated for that, but when you have a drive for each task, the drives are dedicated full bandwidth to there task. so you'll never have to worry about a file or process accessing the drive while audio/data is being written/read from it.

Wow. If I'd known the 7k60 was so loud, I would've bought the Seagate instead.

Chris Ochre wrote:Wow. If I'd known the 7k60 was so loud, I would've bought the Seagate instead.

????


mine's not loud

After hearing all the spiel about it, I was expecting it to be quieter than it is. I thought the seeking would be inaudible or there abouts. It's 20% faster than my 4200 drive, but rather louder, exacerbated by the fact the the laptop tends to be so close to the user's ears compared to a desktop HD.

It's fast, sure, and I'm sure I won't be bothered by the HD noise when in a live scenario.