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Slow Hard-Drives on laptops
Posted: Sat Jul 12, 2008 9:04 am
by feasible_weasel
my Pc laptop has a 5400 rpm 8mb cache.
i was wondering if using a usb stick as readyboost will help with upstream and downstream audio speed?
ive moved my music 50gb to a external hd,so it dont slow the 150gb drive down.
Re: Slow Hard-Drives on laptops
Posted: Sun Jul 13, 2008 9:00 pm
by greenseed
feasible_weasel wrote:
ive moved my music 50gb to a external hd,so it dont slow the 150gb drive down.
^
i need to do this
sry dont know bout other part though
Posted: Mon Jul 14, 2008 7:50 am
by bagawire
As I understand it, ReadyBoost is a solution to help machines that are underspecified to run Windows Vista. I wouldn't recommend running ReadyBoost to help audio performance - it would probably have an adverse effect on your machine's audio performance. Your hard drive is an OK speed, as long as you don't thrash it with masses of audio tracks, which you shouldn't need to - if that is indeed a problem, then accept it and use it to shape your music - [music production + limitations = good]
The best things to do are (a) what you have done - empty your HD as much as possible, and then defrag it regularly; and (b) Get more memory. Find out what the max amount of memory is for your motherboard and install it to the max. There are also some more valuable tips on increasing audio performance here:
http://www.tascam.com/pdf/products/comp ... timize.pdf - this is an old page, but 99% of it is still relevant now. If you have Vista, then an equivalent page is here:
http://www.audioforums.com/windows-vist ... zation.php
What software are you running for music production?
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 6:59 am
by feasible_weasel
Bagawire wrote:As I understand it, ReadyBoost is a solution to help machines that are underspecified to run Windows Vista. I wouldn't recommend running ReadyBoost to help audio performance - it would probably have an adverse effect on your machine's audio performance. Your hard drive is an OK speed, as long as you don't thrash it with masses of audio tracks, which you shouldn't need to - if that is indeed a problem, then accept it and use it to shape your music - [music production + limitations = good]
The best things to do are (a) what you have done - empty your HD as much as possible, and then defrag it regularly; and (b) Get more memory. Find out what the max amount of memory is for your motherboard and install it to the max. There are also some more valuable tips on increasing audio performance here:
http://www.tascam.com/pdf/products/comp ... timize.pdf - this is an old page, but 99% of it is still relevant now. If you have Vista, then an equivalent page is here:
http://www.audioforums.com/windows-vist ... zation.php
What software are you running for music production?
vista....
thanks for the pages
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 10:29 am
by mrhope
I have an older desktop computer and both drives are only 5400 RPM. It was never a problem for making music. I never ran out of audio tracks. My typical mixes were multiple 24bit stereo tracks at 44.1kHz. Editing was a little bit slow, but then I added more RAM to the computer and it sped up a bit. That computer is a GateWay Select 750 with 256 MB of RAM at 750 MHz CPU. I still use it to make beats on occasionally or watch dowloaded movies.
Re: Slow Hard-Drives on laptops
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 4:04 pm
by two oh one
feasible_weasel wrote:my Pc laptop
There's the problem right there!
Re: Slow Hard-Drives on laptops
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:44 pm
by feasible_weasel
two oh one wrote:feasible_weasel wrote:my Pc laptop
There's the problem right there!
i have a macbook pro too lol
Posted: Tue Jul 15, 2008 5:45 pm
by feasible_weasel
MrHope wrote:I have an older desktop computer and both drives are only 5400 RPM. It was never a problem for making music. I never ran out of audio tracks. My typical mixes were multiple 24bit stereo tracks at 44.1kHz. Editing was a little bit slow, but then I added more RAM to the computer and it sped up a bit. That computer is a GateWay Select 750 with 256 MB of RAM at 750 MHz CPU. I still use it to make beats on occasionally or watch dowloaded movies.
good
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 1:25 am
by mrhope
Ya still will need to optimize your DAW for audio though, if you didn't already. Happy computing.
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 3:07 am
by mike honcho
ya i was like, PC LAPTOP? huh? lol
Posted: Wed Jul 16, 2008 7:56 pm
by feasible_weasel
MrHope wrote:Ya still will need to optimize your DAW for audio though, if you didn't already. Happy computing.
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 8:20 am
by stanton
I'd recommend putting a 7200rpm drive in when you can, one of the biggest changes in performance you can make for such a cheap price when you're doing resource intensive tasks.
Posted: Thu Jul 17, 2008 6:42 pm
by feasible_weasel
stanton wrote:I'd recommend putting a 7200rpm drive in when you can, one of the biggest changes in performance you can make for such a cheap price when you're doing resource intensive tasks.
sounds like a good idea
presently i set the laptop to have no paging file set by,so now the hard-drive is nice and quiet. so the hard-drive is free to do audio stuff.