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All this partitioning sounds like a lot of work for no purpose?
Don't you just point VDJ to the folder you put all the music in and then after analyzing it it's ready to go?
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Partitioning big drives into smaller chunks is a throwback to days of old when disk sizes exceeded the maximum usable partition size in ancient versions of windows. Now it's not an issue just make a folder anywhere you like.
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Originally Posted by
juski
Partitioning big drives into smaller chunks is a throwback to days of old when disk sizes exceeded the maximum usable partition size in ancient versions of windows. Now it's not an issue just make a folder anywhere you like.
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Dinosaur
Originally Posted by
DazzyD
Peter, I did this very thing back in August when I got my new laptop with a 1.5Tb internal HDD.
What I did, and it's easy as pie, was to partition the drive.
That's easy for you to say, Smartarse.
Originally Posted by
AndyMD
USB3 speed is as quick if not quicker than most laptop hard drives.
Surely the transfer speed is dictated by the disk rotation speed. Or do drives vary by manufacturer and things? When I used Cortex, I used to get the fastest drives I could afford.
Originally Posted by
juski
Come on lads, have pity on an old bloke. I ask a simple question, and I know less after the answers arrive than before I asked.
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Originally Posted by
Excalibur
That's easy for you to say, Smartarse.
Easy to say - even easier to do!!
Surely the transfer speed is dictated by the disk rotation speed.
Or do drives vary by manufacturer and things? When I used Cortex, I used to get the fastest drives I could afford.
Rotation speed is a factor but if it's an external drive then USB connectivity is an even bigger factor. USB3 is way faster at transferring data than USB2 and let's not even think of USB1.1! If it's an internal drive then USB is taken out of the equation but most drives spin fast enough that you would hardly notice any difference in the time it takes your tracks to load. The biggest factors in this scenario would be processor speed and amount of RAM.
Come on lads, have pity on an old bloke. I ask a simple question, and I know less after the answers arrive than before I asked.
Like I said, Peter. If you are only using the machine for gigging, then I'd stay with internal storage of your media library. No need to worry about USB transfer speeds, less hardware to carry around with you and an extra free USB port available for the important things like USB-powered christmas tree, cup warmer or mini vaccuum!!
Dazzy D
Lightning Disco & Entertainment
Born to make you party!
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Just make a folder, put yer music in it & point VDJ at it. Done :-)
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Originally Posted by
juski
Just make a folder, put yer music in it & point VDJ at it. Done :-)
And back up on either a SSD or USB3 HD Belief me I didn't believe in back ups until my laptop completely failed while sound-checking. Thankfully, external HD with me with a copy of VDJ on it saved the party
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