Tips N Tweaks 3
Since we covered some stuff with hard drives in the last article, I thought adding another tip about hard drives would be in order for this installment. Specifically I mentioned placing the VM on its own partition, all by its lonesome. I’ll take that one step further and say that it should be on its own partition on another drive rather than the boot drive or the drive that has the operating system (OS) is on. But those poor souls using a laptop do not really have this option unless they set it up each time they boot their laptop up.
What is the benefit of placing the VM in its own partition on another drive?
Well when the system does have to use the VM, by placing it on another drive, it will not slow the system down as it reads and writes information from your main boot drive. Performance can be even improved slightly when you from an IDE/EIDE drive to a SATA/SATA II drive! Even better performance can be gained by using a striped or RAID 1 volume to place the VM on as it reads and writes from two or more hard drives. Add it all up and you have a cumulative effect of boosting system performance, especially when you are are using several programs at the same time, or rendering high quality video and so on.
While my articles and books are specifically geared towards disc jockeys, these simple tips apply to anyone wanting to get better performance out of any computer and even laptops. Anyone who does a lot of photo editing, video editing, music mixing/editing, graphics intensive video games and so on have found my simple tips to work rather well for them too.
If you are interested in learning more about VM, hard drives, RAM and so much more, I highly recommend reading my latest book Introduction to Computer DJing & CPS.
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