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From: Neil Rutman on 3 Feb 2010 12:20 I'm in the process of backing up all my audio drives. Often I will have files for one song in several different places on the audio drive due to working on something for a while then leaving it for weeks or longer, working on other projects. I have tons of songs like this which makes for a fairly disorganized drive. Before I backup I make sure that all wavs for each song are in 1 folder. My question is, assuming that having all the files for one song close to each other on the drive will enhance performance, do I need to copy/backup each folder one at a time to the new drive to make sure the files that had previously been scattered throughout the original drive are now close together? Does any of this even matter? Neil R
From: Kraig Olmstead on 3 Feb 2010 16:44 The drive hasn't been a bottleneck since the days where PIO was your only real choice with IDE. The CPU remains the bottleneck because DAW users will always use as much as they can get. That may change some day, but it's certainly true for now. Buddy Holly show tonight. http://www.facebook.com/event.php?eid=261637174922&index=1 KO Glennbo wrote: > The killer robot "Neil Rutman" <neilrut(a)speakeasy.net> grabbed the > controls of the spaceship cakewalk.audio and pressed these buttons... > >> I'm in the process of backing up all my audio drives. Often I will >> have files for one song in several different places on the audio drive >> due to working on something for a while then leaving it for weeks or >> longer, working on other projects. I have tons of songs like this >> which makes for a fairly disorganized drive. >> >> Before I backup I make sure that all wavs for each song are in 1 >> folder. My question is, assuming that having all the files for one >> song close to each other on the drive will enhance performance, do I >> need to copy/backup each folder one at a time to the new drive to make >> sure the files that had previously been scattered throughout the >> original drive are now close together? >> >> Does any of this even matter? > > I would guess that the only thing that matters is that your DAW software is > able to find all the pieces to any given song. As far as interleave goes, > (if that's what you are referring to), you aren't going to get the files to > interleave on the drive like they were originally laid down, but drives are > so fast now, it really shouldn't matter. >
From: Neil Rutman on 3 Feb 2010 16:44 Thanks Glennbo! Neil R "Glennbo" <vdrumsYourHeadFromYourAss(a)cox.net> wrote in message news:Xns9D149D7C4925FBrownShoesDontMakeIt(a)188.40.43.213... > The killer robot "Neil Rutman" <neilrut(a)speakeasy.net> grabbed the > controls of the spaceship cakewalk.audio and pressed these buttons... > >> I'm in the process of backing up all my audio drives. Often I will >> have files for one song in several different places on the audio drive >> due to working on something for a while then leaving it for weeks or >> longer, working on other projects. I have tons of songs like this >> which makes for a fairly disorganized drive. >> >> Before I backup I make sure that all wavs for each song are in 1 >> folder. My question is, assuming that having all the files for one >> song close to each other on the drive will enhance performance, do I >> need to copy/backup each folder one at a time to the new drive to make >> sure the files that had previously been scattered throughout the >> original drive are now close together? >> >> Does any of this even matter? > > I would guess that the only thing that matters is that your DAW software > is > able to find all the pieces to any given song. As far as interleave goes, > (if that's what you are referring to), you aren't going to get the files > to > interleave on the drive like they were originally laid down, but drives > are > so fast now, it really shouldn't matter. > > -- > Remove YourHeadFromYourAss to Reply by email > ________ __ > / ____/ /__ ____ ____ / /_ ____ > / / __/ / _ \/ __ \/ __ \/ __ \/ __ \ > / /_/ / / __/ / / / / / / /_/ / /_/ / > \____/_/\___/_/ /_/_/ /_/_.___/\____/ > --------------------------------------------------------------------- > Glennbo http://www.soundclick.com/glennbo > Non-Linear Sound http://www.soundclick.com/jambits > Hear My Music http://www.soundclick.com/ThePseudonyms
From: Neil Rutman on 3 Feb 2010 17:23 Thanks Kraig, Neil R "Neil Rutman" <neilrut(a)speakeasy.net> wrote in message news:-LednfDsf5rGc_TWnZ2dnUVZ_rednZ2d(a)speakeasy.net... > Thanks Glennbo! > > Neil R > > "Glennbo" <vdrumsYourHeadFromYourAss(a)cox.net> wrote in message > news:Xns9D149D7C4925FBrownShoesDontMakeIt(a)188.40.43.213... >> The killer robot "Neil Rutman" <neilrut(a)speakeasy.net> grabbed the >> controls of the spaceship cakewalk.audio and pressed these buttons... >> >>> I'm in the process of backing up all my audio drives. Often I will >>> have files for one song in several different places on the audio drive >>> due to working on something for a while then leaving it for weeks or >>> longer, working on other projects. I have tons of songs like this >>> which makes for a fairly disorganized drive. >>> >>> Before I backup I make sure that all wavs for each song are in 1 >>> folder. My question is, assuming that having all the files for one >>> song close to each other on the drive will enhance performance, do I >>> need to copy/backup each folder one at a time to the new drive to make >>> sure the files that had previously been scattered throughout the >>> original drive are now close together? >>> >>> Does any of this even matter? >> >> I would guess that the only thing that matters is that your DAW software >> is >> able to find all the pieces to any given song. As far as interleave >> goes, >> (if that's what you are referring to), you aren't going to get the files >> to >> interleave on the drive like they were originally laid down, but drives >> are >> so fast now, it really shouldn't matter. >> >> -- >> Remove YourHeadFromYourAss to Reply by email >> ________ __ >> / ____/ /__ ____ ____ / /_ ____ >> / / __/ / _ \/ __ \/ __ \/ __ \/ __ \ >> / /_/ / / __/ / / / / / / /_/ / /_/ / >> \____/_/\___/_/ /_/_/ /_/_.___/\____/ >> --------------------------------------------------------------------- >> Glennbo http://www.soundclick.com/glennbo >> Non-Linear Sound http://www.soundclick.com/jambits >> Hear My Music http://www.soundclick.com/ThePseudonyms > >
From: John Braner on 4 Feb 2010 06:06 On 03/02/2010 17:20, Neil Rutman wrote: > I'm in the process of backing up all my audio drives. Often I will have > files for one song in several different places on the audio drive due to > working on something for a while then leaving it for weeks or longer, > working on other projects. I have tons of songs like this which makes for a > fairly disorganized drive. > > Before I backup I make sure that all wavs for each song are in 1 folder. My > question is, assuming that having all the files for one song close to each > other on the drive will enhance performance, do I need to copy/backup each > folder one at a time to the new drive to make sure the files that had > previously been scattered throughout the original drive are now close > together? > > Does any of this even matter? > > Neil R > > Neil, Are you using SONAR? If so - you can "save as" your file to a new folder and all the audio will get copied to one place. If you do this to all your songs - voila! dirve is "organised". It may not help performance - but you'll know where things are. PS - when you're done - you'd delete all the old folders. -- =========== John Braner jbraner(a)NOblueyonderSPAM.co.uk http://cdbaby.com/cd/JohnBraner http://www.soundclick.com/johnbraner
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