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

Hello:
DIdn't the drive come pre-formatted. From what I can tell, the jury is still out in regards to whether ntfs or fat 32 is better for audio work. All my drives are ntfs. To be honest, today's drives really don't have that much trouble keeping with many tracks of audio. If you are not using any effects or plug-ins at all and just streaming audio tracks from disk, you could have loads and loads of tracks with no trouble.
Gord
----- Original Message ----- From: "Ilkster" <The_Ilkster@xxxxxxxxxxx>
To: "ddots-l" <ddots-l@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Sent: Saturday, February 25, 2006 4:10 PM
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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