@Mike B Studios said:
And Raid 0 is always a plus.
Not really. Most of the time, sample playback is limited by access speed, which limits simultaneous voice triggering. When combining several drives into a RAID-0, they all have to synchronize their data transfer, eliminating the benefit of using several drives.
The best performance ought to be have when striping the sample library up manually over your sample drives, 001.dat on drive 1, 002.dat on drive 2, 003.dat on drive 3 and so on. But it would be quite annoying. SImply distributing the sample content randomly over the drives should be enough.
Martin,
I believe one of my suggestions was simply spreading the sample load across multiple hard drives.
To your point, (for sample playback) how many drives in Raid 0 would you say represent too many? 4... 6?
I would think 2 drives are fine, or am I mistaken?