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Dec 29 2008, 02:01 PM
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Don't buy 160 gb drives, buy 500 GB drives - they're incredibly cheap. If you get 120gb you'll have to upgrade again.
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Dec 29 2008, 02:03 PM
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A couple of points:
1. Why only 160Gb? That's still pretty small by today's standards - for an extra $40 or so you can get from 160Gb to 750Gb, like this one here: http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16822148134 As you have found out, disk space is valuable, and with a couple of 750Gb disks instead of a couple of 160Gb disks, for an extra 80$ you would be set for a very long time. 2. It varies from application to application, but some licensing schemes use hard drive IDs as part of their machine ID. Its possible that even if you image the drives you may need to re-authorize some of your software ... sorry 
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Dec 29 2008, 02:25 PM
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I'm with Andrew 100%. Price of HDs is now very low, and it is not efficient to get 160GB HD now - they are among the pricier ones when you look at $/MB ratio!
I would say 500GB is the best buy now, but you can easily go to 750 as Andrew suggested. In general, I would always prefer to have 2 separate HDs, so one serves for audio recording, and the other one for video recording. This would avoid potential crashes. If you do decide to do image transfer to another disk I advise that you investigate IN DETAIL about the image software abilities and help file and look on the internet if anyone had any problems. Also burn some backup DVDs just in case - you never know.. -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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Dec 29 2008, 02:52 PM
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Also for performance issues with specific DAW's its better to have a separate drive for recording rather than using the system disk to run windows and record.
I recomend getting 2 physical HD's. I would go this route. 2 of these. 1 for your O/s and one for recording. http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.aspx...N82E16822152052 Also you create redundancy with 2 physical HD's. Don't get me started about RAID configurations 
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Dec 30 2008, 01:28 AM
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What I do is have two HDs:
HD 1: has two partitions: C and D. - C is the system partition and there are all installed apps, and plugins. - D is the audio projects partition, and there audio data is stored HD 2: has one partition: E - E serves as video files storage, and samples for bulky VST Instruments. Ideally, I would like to have 3 separate HDs (without RAID sequencing): 1. Raptor HD for system 2. 500GB for audio 3. 750GB for Video & VST samples 4. empty HD slot for future upgrade PS I would advise to keep the Windows and program files, including VST folder on the same partition and keep everything else on other partitions (SPECIALLY sample banks for VSTs!). Also, I suggest you keep My Documents folder and Desktop folder empty (shortcuts can help you with that). This post has been edited by Ivan Milenkovic: Dec 30 2008, 01:33 AM -------------------- - Ivan's Video Chat Lesson Notes HERE
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