Of late, Ive seen quite a few clients get themselves into corners, with poor system performance due to track count issues and large sessions. There seems to be an assumption out there that you can run 100+ tracks off the average 5200rpm Firewire drive…that is simply not the case! In this video I show how easy it is to manage the process of spanning your session across multiple hard drives, explain a few caveats, and show how to bring it back to one volume for backups etc
Spanning Hard Drives from Brent Heber on Vimeo.
Spanning disks with large trackcounts
Published: February 26, 2009
Thanks, just what I wanted to look for in the manual one of these days! (in adjusting my Nuendo workflows to PT)
For me, there’s no reason not to be organized across at least two drives even for small projects. It can always make the system less sluggish.
I always keep BGFX (for post work) on a separate drive – those damn things are running at all times in multiple layers. So, the main audio project disk is free for more random-access to shorter clips such as dialog and foley.