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RE: HDD Quandry

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In Reply to: RE: HDD Quandry posted by Dawnrazor on July 03, 2008 at 17:27:54

If using the current cPlay, which pre-loads data into RAM, there is little or no disc traffic during play whatever bus is used. I set BIOS to power down HDDs after two minutes of inactivity so, once the data are loaded, there is even less.

If you use 2.5" SATA drives and mount them in rubber bands in 3.5" bays, there is no issue either with heat (they never seem to go over 28 degrees C) and there is NO vibration even when bulk copying. It's a cheapster's trick that won't win you admiring glances from over-clocking nerds but it works. Of course, much the same SQ arguments apply to eSATA.

An SSD has low power consumption, is fast and is quiet. If it is only running the OS, it is most unlikely to interfere with playback.

The tip to delete the paging file with an SSD in common enough but can be misleading - many applications create one on the system drive whatever you tell XP to do but you do not know you have it. Better by far to put a paging file of fixed size on a data drive (say 100 MB but it doesn't really matter) but none on the SSD. Its presence will not affect sound quality. Making it reasonably large and of fixed size discourages defragmentation.

There's probably as much nonsense on the web about paging files as on anything - I'm reasonably confident I'm not adding to it here . . .

Best

Dave

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RE: HDD Quandry - Dawnrazor 08:37:43 07/08/08 (0)
RE: HDD Quandry - J.Mac 00:05:36 07/08/08 (0)

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