Using Three Drives - Help Please. . . Options

[Humaniversally]

Hi everyone. I just bought a third hard drive which again brought up the question of how to set-up things for optimal performance. While I’ve read around forums about this, I’d appreciate feed-back on certain points.

I’m planning to do this :

First 80GB drive for apps and DAW.
Second 160HG for samples.
Third 160GB for recorded audio.

My questions are : What about soft-synths and such ? There are 3 components here, the software itself, the “sampler instruments files” and the actual samples’ files (wav. Sf2. Aiff. Etc). Is the whole thing better off in the samples’ drive ? Or the app stays in the first with the sampler instruments’ files while the samples go to the samples’ drive ? Or both the sampler instruments and the samples go there ?

Then. About the third recorded audio drive, is it better strictly used for audio that’s recorded with one’s sequencer or can it be also used to store other audio stuff – such as recorded audio made with other programs (in wav, aiff formats and such) as such or compressed as MP3s, MPEGs, etc ?

Also. Some mentioned making a partition on first drive to separate the DAW’s sequencer from all other apps. Any value in this ?

That’s it for now. Thanks in advance,

[lepetitmartien]

Then. About the third recorded audio drive, is it better strictly used for audio that’s recorded with one’s sequencer or can it be also used to store other audio stuff – such as recorded audio made with other programs (in wav, aiff formats and such) as such or compressed as MP3s, MPEGs, etc ?

So I guess it's this one? Uh

Well, DAWs are not that touchy, you can share the drive for audio files between apps, now, the idea is to share the workload between the drives, so it's fine as long as one app access the drive at one time (now it all depends on what you are doing)

On the 3 drive set up you mention, I don't see the point, save if he works on the second and dumps partly mixed tracks/mixed tracks on the third one…

Haveing one drive for the sequencer and its files can only mean that I think as it's not with midi sequencing files you need a huge drive, especially as projects are save together, there should be audio too. Now if he does his stuff in MIDI then record it thru another program (on the third drive)… But I think we are far from the usual.