Hey all, was curious what the most efficient way to set up a mid size SSD 250gb, and 2 1tb HDDs in a studio set up. Building the new studio PC tomorrow and wanted to know if this set up was ideal:
1) 250 gb SSD: OS, Music Applications, Small/Curated Sample Library, Ableton Projects (No stems/uncompressed recorded audio)
2) 1tb HD1: Bulk Sample Library + Projects Deliverables (Stems, Mixes, etc) + Received Stems/Large Project Specific Files + Old/Archived Ableton Projects
3) 1tb HD2: Ableton Recording + Ableton Cache + PC general documents/downloads + All non-audio Applications
The idea here is that I should be able to run the bulk of any project off the SSD greatly reducing hard drive loading/cut outs. Because of its limited size, any large project files whether its vocal stems, or video files for a film mix would sit on the 1st larger 1TB drive with the project file still sitting on the SSD. My third drive is less specific and more for non audio purposes but I figured it would be a good target folder for Ableton recording/cache so my computer isn't reading and writing to a drive at the same time.
Is there a better way to set this up? This isn't exact, but similar to how Ableton reccomends a multi drive set up. How would you set up your hard discs if money was no object?
Submitted June 25, 2017 at 02:24PM by DormSports https://www.reddit.com/r/edmproduction/comments/6jfike/new_studio_pc_hard_drive_set_up_help/?utm_source=ifttt