Help with drive setup/configuation for music studio

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I own a T60P, which I will be using as the center of a music studio. I own both SSD's, and conventional. Would it be optimal to use the SSD as the primary boot drive, which holds the applications themselves? Then use the larger, conventional drive as the "write to" drive for the music editing, etc, installed in the ultrabay? External drive? Two SSD?

[ARD]

If all you are going to be doing is just sequencing, then I don't think it will matter where you place the drives.
If you will be doing sampling, then the SSD will have an advantage over the regular drive in read/write.
But even then, sampling has been done with regular drives throughout history with no issues.
You must take into account that the T60/T61 SATA bandwidth is limited to 1.5Gb/sec.
In the end, I really don't think it matters too much where you place the drives.
What has been found to be more important are the ASIO drivers for sound I/O.
Also, for sequencing, PCs and Macs aren't as accurate in timekeeping as dedicated sequencers are, due to
the OS processes running in the background that mess up the sequencing clock.

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ARD seems to have covered alot of what I would have said but a few more points/questions

What type of recording are you planning to do?

Recording large track counts of traditional accoustic and electric insturments and mixing with effects and dynamics processing requires a very fast CPU as well as a fast HDD dedicated to audio. Sampling requires that and as much RAM as you can give it.

What type of audio interface are you intending to use?

1394 would likely be your best bet with multitracking on a notebook to avoid latency issues but if you're keeping track counts low USB 2.0 should work. Most notebook chipsets and 1394 chips don't work well for audio recording. Luckily alot of IBM's do have the right ones. More on that in the sites listed below.

If the Mods will allow it?

Since this site isn't dedicated to recording music I would suggest you visit one that is. I'm the DAW's Mod at http://www.recording.org and they have a treasure trove of info on computer based recording (PC and Mac) as well notebook specific information. Another good site is http://www.gearslutz.com. Good luck with your studio.

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