Computer Setup and System Configuration • Re: How Much CPU and RAM is Enough?

The 8 TB sn850x went for $550 on Amazon just recently.

It's $623 at the moment

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The 1TB is $85, the 2TB is $147, and the 4TB is $299

So all in the three drives would be $531. That's almost $100 cheaper

Yeah, but for 1 TB less. The cost per TB is virtually identical.

And for increasing your risk of a disk breakage taking your whole music playing environment down by a factor of 3. You distributed things over all 3 disks in a way that the sampler stops working when any one of the 3 disks fails.

Wow that's the leap you are making? You are saying putting everything on one drive that will work 3X as hard and run hotter in the process, quite literally putting all your eggs in one basket is the safer option

Wow

You do realize you said earlier that the OS drive wouldn't be working very hard, does that make that drive more or less likely to fail? If it did fail, which is unlikely but possible I have my old PC with Windows 11 and pretty much all my DAWs and all of the plugins I use already installed on that ready to go. The back up drive which is attached to the network that automatically backs up all my samples and stuff is also ready to go. My old back up PC is three years old, and also set up with three drives. I use it on my network as an AudioGridder server so I can offload plugins to it's CPU for things like Diva, as a result everything is updated regularly

As I said earlier I back up my third drive with all my samples, photos, and videos on it automatically. So if that drive failed I would be back up and running in seconds as everything is backed up on a external drive that's already connected to the network

If my Software drive failed and I was on some kind of deadline I have lots of space on the other two drives to reinstall them. It would be an inconvenience but I would be back up and running in very short order on my main PC or just use my backup PC

I had a catastrophic hard drive failure many years ago when I only ran one drive. I am probably more prepared for the scenario of a drive failure than most. One of my absolute biggest mistakes back then was putting all my digital eggs in one hard drive basket and when that singular drive crashed I lost everything

Having one drive with everything on it is a terrible idea if you do A/V production and creation

My son is an electrician, I have a whole home surge protector, a large UPS backup battery system for my studio and a whole home generator

Outside of a fire or tornado I am good

Statistics: Posted by IvyBirds — Fri Feb 21, 2025 6:19 am

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