EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

At 01:28 PM 1/15/03 +0000, you wrote: 
>
> As I use the Mac only for music apps, I will have a lot of space left 
> on the internal hard drive (120Gb). Is it wise to store my samples 
> (mainly from libraries, which I hardly ever edit) on this drive? 



I have done this myself and had no problems so far on WinXP. 

Spreading the load over multiple drives and having the drives on different ATA
ports will give you more disc I/O headroom -- more voices for EXS24 or Kontact
which will soon support streaming and more audio tracks.  

One caveat -- drives that are worked hard are probably more likely to fail so
there is more chance that your system drive will fall over if it is doing
double duty. 

One strategy is to have a separate samples partition on the system drive. The
system partition is less likely to be corrupted but modern file systems (NTFS
for WinXP and the new file system for OSX) have journalling and are much more
robust than in the past. This will not stop your system drive from wearing out
faster from all the seeks but the proportion of drives that would fail for this
reason during the life of a machine is probably pretty small.

Regards,
Murray