Utilizing My Resources

[Alex]

Yep, that did the trick, thanks.

Alex.

[grishata]

A challenge with the latest Fantasia. If too many patches are labelled persistent, then during loading i get 'Midi intruments read timed out,' and other failed messages related to the midi and audio devices.

I just uploaded a new cvs release of fantasia.
Now you can change the socket read timeout by choosing Edit/Preferences and then click the `Backend' tab.
See jsampler CVS history to find out what's new.

[ccherrett]

I now have 3 500GB SATA2 drives to split my samples up on.

What is the best thing to do:

1. Simply split my samples up over the 3 drives as normal hard drives

or

2. Stripe the drives with RAID?

What would give me the best performance?

Thanks!

[dahnielson]

I now have 3 500GB SATA2 drives to split my samples up on.

What is the best thing to do:

1. Simply split my samples up over the 3 drives as normal hard drives

or

2. Stripe the drives with RAID?

What would give me the best performance?

According to this discussion a RAID will not give you better sample playback performance. So normal hard drives will do.

In case you're worried about hard drive failures a mirrored RAID might be a good idea, it will not give you any performance boost (like normal split drives will) but can save you hours of reinstalling and organizing gigabytes of samples.

My plan is to get an another 500 GB drive identical to the one I've already got to keep a complete mirrored copy of my existing drive on, but as normal drives and not RAID. This will give me a working backup if one of the drives fails and at the same time let me balance sample playback between them (strings from one drive, brass from the other, etc.). The best of both worlds.

[ccherrett]

I ended up just copying all samples across to all drives for backup. I will then map to use only the samples I need from the drives. So I have a decent backup.

Thanks!