And again, at PCIe gen speeds there’s no meaningful speed to gain from any Raid level. The only benefit I can see is the convenience of having one volume instead of three.
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I wouldn’t use RAID at all. It adds complexity that isn’t really necessary. It doesn’t really do anything for performance
Instead, just get a big NVMe drive (they are up to 8tb for Gen 4) and invest in a regular backup solution. I use an Asusstor dedicated NAS for backups with 8x 24TB spinning rust drives in RAID 6 (plus two NVMe fast write drives for buffering), but even a big USB drive will be good for the basics. Cloud is also an option, but can get expensive for media files, especially on projects with multiple versions.
Pete
Microsoft
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Hi Mattias,
It’s not for audio but for soundbanks. I know it’s a risk, but so far so good.
I can download them again.
A loaded project can be 60gb, so also speed is needed.
Just bought a USB 3.2 Gen 2 flash storage drive for backup and it transferred 60 GB in under 10 seconds. Of course, your MB has to have the same USB capability.
Also, NVMe M.2 Gen 5 drives are plenty fast with no RAID involved. Everyone has their own system that works for them, you included, but I always felt that RAID 0 eats up a lot of valuable drive space.
Raid 0 eats no space, it is simply a sum of all included drives as a striping device. The problem is it has no fault tolreance, as I wrote above, if one drive in the array fails all data are lost. No way of getzing them back.
So never ever use Raid 0 if you need to rely on your data
Yes, I guess I need to rephrase what I meant. It doesn’t eat up space as far as GBs are concerned but in my case, and probably many, I would use one drive for systems and another for samples, song files etc. In RAID 0, I couldn’t have that separation with 2 drives and would have to employ more. In that event, RAID 0 would eat up valuable slots, especially if M.2 Gen 5 slots are limited and as you pointed out, there’s no wiggle room for drive error. I think there’s more lost then gained in this case with RAID.
Hi all,
1- Problem.
I have extreem graphic lag in all 13, 14 and 15 versions, Cubase and Nuendo.
12 versions work just fine!
This occurs only with big projects, only instrument (180), group (30) and effect tracks(15),
loaded 57GB. What I see is an extreem use of core 1 and 10.
2-OS and hardware.
Windows 11 25H2 latest updates
Motherboard Asus Prime Z890-P Wifi latest bios 2401
Intel Core Ultra 9 285K.
Standard Bios settings, no tweaking.
Audio, Presonus Quantum HD8,
Changes I made:
1- Bios:
Performance Preferences, changed to Asus Advanced OC Profile.
Asus Multicore Enhancement, Enable - Remove all Limits 90c
XMP, DDR5-7600 mhz
Performance Core ratio, sync all cores
Efficient Core Ratio, sync all cores
Dram Frequency, DDR5-6400mhz
Windows 11, unpark all cores
After a week all big projects still run smooth, no peaks in core 1 and 10.
Hopefully this can help others with the same problem.
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