I noticed a much improved performance by moving my songs, VSTi patch data, RealTracks, RealDrums, and swap file to a 2nd HDD and keeping my programs on the 1st HDD.

For comparisons, I'm running two 1 Tb 7200 rpm WD Black drives and 16gb of RAM. I've also noticed that 64 bit Win 10 seems to run faster than 64 bit Win 7, although Win 10 starts much slower! Because of that I'm considering an SSD.

Jeff


Win11, Intel i7 7700K 4.2Ghz, 32Gb RAM, 2x1Tb HD, 500Gb NVMe, BIAB/RB 2025, MOTU 828MK3 audio, MOTU Midi Express, Yamaha Montage 7, DX7II, TX802, Motif XS Rack, Roland Fantom XR Rack, Oberheim Matrix 1000, VoiceLive3 Extreme, Kontakt 6, SampleTank 4.3