PC DAW Questions

[Andrew Robinson]

512GB internal SSD here, everything is on it except my iTunes library,
archived old jobs and library of stock footage for video work (on a 4TB
spinning drive, and also all archived to DVD). It's currently at 300Gb
used.

When prices fall a bit more I expect to either move live jobs to an
external SSD, or if they fall a lot, move everything to an external SSD to
cut fan noise to near zero (the Mac Pro fan is *seriously* quiet unless I
max the CPUS with a large render job).

- Andy_R

On 15 December 2014 at 20:54, foRUMS 4 punkdISCO <forums at punkdisco.co.uk>
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> Thanks all – very interesting..
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> I don’t bloat my PCs, even my main internet PC is pretty thin when it
> comes to what is installed.
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> I just looked to see what my internet PC is and:
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> i7 @ 3.4Ghz with 8Gb RAM.
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> I might build this PC up into a DAW (add more RAM).  At least this way my
> DAW is up and running for the month that it will take me to get everything
> working..
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> Btw, you all mentioned SSD drives.  What do you put on these?  Audio or
> operating system? Or, something else?
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> ta
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> Paul
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> London
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> www.punkdisco.co.uk
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> *From:* Peter Korsten [mailto:peter at severity-one.com]
> *Sent:* 15 December 2014 20:48
> *To:* Music-bar
> *Subject:* Re: PC DAW Questions
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> foRUMS 4 punkdISCO schreef op 15-12-2014 20:11:
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> Is there still value in having a separate DAW PC?
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> To answer that, first you need to answer why you would want/need it
> separate. To me, this comes from the time that device drivers weren't
> written very well, and the operating system let you get away with it. With
> Windows NT and its successors (2000, XP, Vista, 7 and 8) it's become
> increasingly better protected.
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> What you could consider is to have a dedicated drive purely for audio, so
> it doesn't get filled up with your anime collection and such.
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> The trick is not to mess up your computer, but that's not limited to
> audio. So you have to ask yourself, do I really need all these games,
> graphics applications, utilities, and so on?
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> What about a single very powerful PC with dual booting (working PC / DAW
> PC)?
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> Same difference as the previous. Whether you have two PCs with two
> installations, or one PC with two installations, it's two installations.
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> Personally, I can't be bothered with the hassle of having to reboot my
> machine. If anything, I start up a virtual machine if I want to play with
> something. But I wouldn't recommend running an audio package in a VM.
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> Is there still value in going for a specialist DAW builder?  In the past I
> have always done this and accepted the extra 20% it probably has cost me.
> But, my current very powerful Dell internet PC is completely silent so
> again, Im wondering if this theory is also dead..?
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> There's value in it if you don't know an awful lot of computers, or if
> your time is too valuable to spend ages tinkering. I always build my own
> PCs, although "evolve" would be a more accurate description. Every so
> often, I replace a part with something better.
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> - Peter
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