I just purchased a new SATA hard drive because my stock IDE drive would struggle when mixing 24+ channels of 96kHz/24-bit audio. I’m going to reformat the old drive and do a clean install of Ubuntu Studio, so I’d like to plan my partitions with audio production in mind now that I have the opportunity. My first thought was to put / on the IDE and /home on the SATA. But I’m wondering if an Ardour session would run more smoothly with everything on the SATA. The new drive will be connected via a PCI SATA controller, so I may discover that /boot needs to be located on the IDE. I won’t know until the parts arrive and I test it out. Here are the drive specs:
Quantum Fireball lct20
4,500 rpm
40 GB
100 MBps maximum external transfer rate
connected via primary IDE port on motherboard
Seagate ST3300622AS
7,200 rpm
300 GB
16 MB buffer
300 MBps maximum external transfer rate
connected via Promise SATA-TX4 PCI card
PCI 2.2-compliant slot (533 MBps peak transfer rate)
Any recommendations on configuring the partitions would be immensely appreciated.