Desktop DAW build: SSD config?
I'm putting together a desktop PC to run REAPER from a mixture of new + old parts.
I have three SSDs available to me, all 500GB. One is a PCIE NVMe and should be extremely fast. The others are SATA and are quite a bit slower.
I won't be doing much real-time recording of external sources and any recording I do will be limited to a couple of tracks at once, so I don't need masses of disk bandwidth for recording. However, I may want to freeze multiple tracks, so I guess I might appreciate disk bandwidth for rendering and for playback.
I use some Kontakt sample libraries, but they're not so large that I need to stream samples off disk: the subset of samples I use will fit comfortably in memory. Short project load times would be nice, but not essential.
I probably don't need more than 500GB of disk space in total. REAPER and all the instruments + libraries I use are currently on a laptop with a single 500GB SSD, and it's only about 60% full. I could actually just keep things simple and fit everything I need onto the NVMe SSD.
My questions are:
o Is there any point in using anything but the NVMe SSD for this build?
o If I do use one of the SATA SSDs as well:
- which drive should I put Windows on?
- which drive should I put my Kontakt sample libraries on?
- which drive should I put REAPER projects and recorded/rendered audio on?
Thanks
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