Do you record onto your internal hard-drive?

shtreimel · Post by **shtreimel** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 8:58 pm

Window XP'ers Only!!!

For years, I've used an external hard-drive to record music. However I've just purchased an HP notebook that comes with a 120 GB hard drive (5400). I'm not looking for opinions, just facts...are any of you recording music straight to your internal hard-drive. Is so, did you partition the drive? Thanks.

shtreimel · Post by **shtreimel** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 9:26 pm

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Tone Deft · Post by **Tone Deft** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 9:36 pm

yes and no.

my hp dv8000 has 2 80Gb 5400 drives, one for apps, another for data.

partitioning wouldn't get you anything, we're talking about making it easier for the drive to record and retrieve data, physical movement of the drive needs to be optimised. partitioning still means the drive has to work at least as hard to work apps and data from the same drive.

Machinate · Post by **Machinate** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 9:37 pm

I have a 100gb disk with a 30 gig system partition and a 70gig audio/video/crap/email partition. Works well for my needs.

shtreimel · Post by **shtreimel** » Tue Jan 09, 2007 10:07 pm

Machinate wrote:I have a 100gb disk with a 30 gig system partition and a 70gig audio/video/crap/email partition. Works well for my needs.

Ideally, I'd only use my external HD as backup. That way I don't have to drag my external HD and cord around everywhere I go. But I've heard this shouldn't be done. As well, I'm recording gtr/vox etc on my 'puter...so speed/power is an issue.

Thanks for the responses.

msticman · Post by **msticman** » Wed Jan 10, 2007 2:23 am

i have a 20gb internal drive(5400 rpm) and a 160 gb external(7600 rpm). i use my internal for live and plugins and the other one for samples, project files, and processed samples.

im going to upgrade my internal to a sata, as this would alleviate some of my problems with the drive slowing my projects down. i wish i had thought it about, and i could have gotten a motherboard with external sata hookups, or at least firewire. im using the external thru usb, and this causes me some problems at times.