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  • question regarding Special Edition

    S
    S
    Hi to all,

    I have my main hard drive with 186 gigs of space on it, and my second hard drive, has Orchestral Strings VI 1 & 2, and the Appassionata strings, and The Opus Bundle plus the Kontakt 2 orchestra. I have 60 gigs of space left on that hardrive.
    As I don't really want to delete anything on the extra hardrive - will it be ok
    to have the Special Edition on my main hard drive instead - it's just that in the specifications for SE, it recommends that the library be on a separate hard drive.
    anyone any thoughts on this!

    thanks for any info,

    Best,

    Steve.
  • DietzD
    VSL Team
    DietzD
    I'm not the local hardware-guru, but I'm sure that "seperate HD" has to be read in the sense of "not on the system drive", so in principle you should avoid the scenario you are suggesting.

    ... HDs are pretty cheap, nowadays - don't do cost-cutting in the wrong places.

    HTH,
    /Dietz - Vienna Symphonic Library
  • S
    S
    Hi Dietz,

    thanks for the answer. Yes, probably best to follow the guidelines - they're there for a reason.
    Thanks again for your answer.

    best,

    Steve. [:D]
  • S
    S
    Hi Dietz,

    I was just thinking....if I delete some things off my second hard drive, I will have enough room for the SE, but I will have 10 gig's left of memory on that hard drive. As long as I don't add anymore samples to that hard drive, will everything still be ok to put the SE on there?
    thanks if you can let me know.

    best,

    Steve.
  • cmC
    VSL Team
    cmC
    steve, as often the answer is: it depends.
    if your harddisk specs (performance for different parts of the disk) are good, then leaving 10 GB space free might be enough (given the drive is not fragmented of course), some drives need to have up to 25% free to not lack performance for the *highest* part of stored data.

    please understand the system requirements in the way, that data for vienna instruments (as data for all sample loibraries) should reside _not_ on a system drive - these tend to get fragmented and accessed by the operating system and programs during your work and could not respond as fast as an additional drive.

    i'd like to mention also the wording means a real seperate _drive_ not just a second volume (partition) which possibly resides on the same drive as your system volume - see drive management (win) or disk utility (mac) for details

    christian
    and remember: only a CRAY can run an endless loop in just three seconds.
  • S
    S
    Hi Christian,

    The good news is that the drive I have my present sample library's on is a separate hard drive to my main pc's hard drive, so, it looks like I really will have to get one more separate hard drive though if I want to add another library.

    thank you for your advice with this.

    best,

    Steve [:D]