[64studio-devel] hard disk filesystem vs performance

[Quentin Harley]

Rua Haszard Morris wrote:
> I'm about to install a big fat extra HD in my machine to make room for all the Ardour projects I'll invariably generate..
>
> I would like to access the content from both windows and 64studio (dual boot machine). I would also like the disk to perform efficiently so Ardour can handle lots of tracks of audio :)
>
> Are there drawbacks to formatting the disk with a filesystem such as fat32? Alternatively, are there windows drivers I could install to allow rw access to an ext3 disk? 
>   

Be careful with fat32.  While it is possible, you cannot have large 
files (ardour needs this)  Try NTFS.  Just be sure to regularly 
defragment the drive, as NTFS drives tend to get annoyingly slow if they 
get fragmented.

Cheers,
Qurntin