[ddots-l] Re: formatting hard drives for audio

I've formatted many drives under XP, and these days one does
not have to handle Clusters, etc..

The only thing you MAY wish to do is to partition the drive
into smaller drives, but that is your choice and depends on
your requirements.

George. 

-----Original Message-----
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ilkster
Sent: 25 February 2006 21:48
To: ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: formatting hard drives for audio

Thanks George,

What about formatting options?  Any ideas?

----- Original Message ----- 
From: "George Bell" <george@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
To: <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 4:21 PM
Subject: [ddots-l] Re: formatting hard drives for audio


Hi Ilkster,

NTFS is the most stable and secure format in this situation.

George Bell
Techno-Vision Systems Ltd., U.K.

-----Original Message-----
From: ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx
[mailto:ddots-l-bounce@xxxxxxxxxxxxx] On Behalf Of Ilkster
Sent: 25 February 2006 21:10
To: ddots-l
Subject: [ddots-l] formatting hard drives for audio

Hello listers,

Well, I went out and bought a 120 GB 7200rpm Glyph firewire
hard drive for
use with my laptop, and I think I'll be happy with it-looks
well-built.
That is, once I get a 6 to 4 pin conversion cable for
it($35-darned laptop
jacks).  Anyway, , I'll need to format it(its pre-formatted
for MAC, but not
for PC's), and I have a few questions.

File system?  Ntfs or FAT32-is either preferable-my laptop
disk is NTFS, but
I don't think they both have to be the same format?

Also, If I'm presented with the opportunity to select things
like allocation
units, cluster sizes etc, is there any "best fit" settings
for audio use?
Will such specialized formatting settings necessitate
changes to sonar's I/O
buffer settings?


Thanks,


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