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Adding disk

2005-09-01 by Ben Stuyts

Hi,

Sent this to the LUG, but got no response. Maybe someone over here  
has some tips?

My main disk (160 GB) in my G5 is almost full, so I'm going to add
another (internal) disk. I'm just buying to many sample
libraries. :-) Probably a 250 or 400 GB Hitachi, unless someone has a
better idea. I have had good experience with Hitachi, unlike e.g.
Maxtor.

Question: what would be the best way to set this disk up? I'm using
Logic 7.1, and have quite a few EXS libraries and Apple loops (Jam
packs, etc), Garritan P.O., some Sampletank stuff and Kontakt 2 is on
its way. I'm thinking of just moving the folders where these
libraries reside over to the new harddisk, and adding links from the
original position to the new disk.

I guess I should leave my Logic projects on my original disk,
probably giving better performance too.

Seems straightforward to me, or am I overlooking something?

Thanks,
Ben

Re: [Logic_Cafe] Adding disk

2005-09-01 by GAmoore@aol.com

Question: what would be the best way to set this disk up? I'm using
Logic 7.1, and have quite a few EXS libraries and Apple loops (Jam
packs, etc), Garritan P.O., some Sampletank stuff and Kontakt 2 is on
its way. I'm thinking of just moving the folders where these
libraries reside over to the new harddisk, and adding links from the
original position to the new disk.

I guess I should leave my Logic projects on my original disk,
probably giving better performance too.

I have a second internal disk. I partitioned it into 40 gb + 210 gb. I put a system on the 40gb partition and have all non music apps there. I then use the 210 partition for audio, samples, samples for sample playing instruments, and a Freeze File folder which is aliased to the midi area. Then on my original disk I have my OS X and Logic and midi song files. I keep each new song in its own folder and put an alias of the Freeze Files folder in that folder.

To defeat Logic's insistence on managing numbers in my file names, I make song titles like this 450v03a (Song 450 version 3). Otherwise you end up with stuff like 450.03.02.

This also makes it easy to back up all your Logic songs to a CD - because those freeze files will take up a huge amount of room and bloat the folders. So offloading the Freeze Files keeps all audio samples on that second disk and makes backups easy. I can also back up all the audio which is kept in a folder to DVD pretty easily.

You might find that some of your samples can be trimmed. Sometimes there's stuff that is not useful which can be put on an external firewire drive in case its ever needed.

Re: [Logic_Cafe] Adding disk

2005-09-02 by Ben Stuyts

On 1 Sep 2005, at 18:38, GAmoore@... wrote:

> I have a second internal disk. I partitioned it into 40 gb + 210  
> gb. I put a system on the 40gb partition and have all non music  
> apps there. I then use the 210 partition for audio, samples,  
> samples for sample playing instruments, and a Freeze File folder  
> which is aliased to the midi area. Then on my original disk I have  
> my OS X and Logic and midi song files. I keep each new song in its  
> own folder and put an alias of the Freeze Files folder in that folder.

Interesting setup. Thanks!

Ben

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