Upgrading my DAW Build...

[Stratman68]

Different partitions on a single drive, or multiple drives?? Sorry for being such a newb.

I have always used seperate drives. With ssd's, nvme.m2 and such being dirt cheap I see no reason to partition the 3 main things in a daw.
As I said, OS\apps on one drive, samples on another and record your audio on another. I mean you can partition drives all you want but for a basic home studio, which I assume you are inquiring about. 3 makes sense. As stated. My sample drive is m2, which basically means it plugs "directly into the motherboard-super fast. My OS drive is Samsung Evo SSD which is plenty fast for apps and windows.
Here's a good site to explain the different drives. I would rather have drives than partitions.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/nvme-vs-m-2-drives/

 

[Zedhed]

I have always used seperate drives. With ssd's, nvme.m2 and such being dirt cheap I see no reason to partition the 3 main things in a daw.
As I said, OS\apps on one drive, samples on another and record your audio on another. I mean you can partition drives all you want but for a basic home studio, which I assume you are inquiring about. 3 makes sense. As stated. My sample drive is m2, which basically means it plugs "directly into the motherboard-super fast. My OS drive is Samsung Evo SSD which is plenty fast for apps and windows.
Here's a good site to explain the different drives. I would rather have drives than partitions.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/nvme-vs-m-2-drives/

 

[GiRa]

I'd add some big ass CPU cooler. I run a huge Noctua which can handle nearly double TDP than my CPU. This means I can't hear my computer when doing DAW work. It outputs some dBs when playing but it's the video card, not the CPU.

 

[la szum]

I have always used seperate drives. With ssd's, nvme.m2 and such being dirt cheap I see no reason to partition the 3 main things in a daw.
As I said, OS\apps on one drive, samples on another and record your audio on another. I mean you can partition drives all you want but for a basic home studio, which I assume you are inquiring about. 3 makes sense. As stated. My sample drive is m2, which basically means it plugs "directly into the motherboard-super fast. My OS drive is Samsung Evo SSD which is plenty fast for apps and windows.
Here's a good site to explain the different drives. I would rather have drives than partitions.

https://www.backblaze.com/blog/nvme-vs-m-2-drives/

Thanks!