I'm getting ready to purchase an external Firewire 800 / USB 2.0 drive to host Horizon Solo Strings as well as other sample libraries like BFD, Kontakt 2's VSL selection, etc.
For about the same price I can get either 2 250 GB drives or 1 500 GB drive. My question is which will give me better performance for sample-streaming -- the two drives dividing the 'seeking' duties between them but perhaps fighting over the same Firewire 800 bandwidth, or one drive doing all the seeking but having the bandwidth to itself. Which wins, and would the difference be significant?
Would this answer change if you now take into consideration that my audio interface, the RME Fireface 800, is going to be sharing the Firewire 800 bus with the drive(s)? Or if, to avoid that, I were to run the drive(s) off their USB 2.0 connection?
Thanks for your advice...
For about the same price I can get either 2 250 GB drives or 1 500 GB drive. My question is which will give me better performance for sample-streaming -- the two drives dividing the 'seeking' duties between them but perhaps fighting over the same Firewire 800 bandwidth, or one drive doing all the seeking but having the bandwidth to itself. Which wins, and would the difference be significant?
Would this answer change if you now take into consideration that my audio interface, the RME Fireface 800, is going to be sharing the Firewire 800 bus with the drive(s)? Or if, to avoid that, I were to run the drive(s) off their USB 2.0 connection?
Thanks for your advice...