Comments on: 11 Important DAW Maintenance Tips

By: Music Production

Music Production — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 02:53:57 +0000

Good tips. I dont have any problems now. But if anything occurs, I will definitely apply this.

By: Dan Connor

Dan Connor — Thu, 28 Feb 2008 01:19:56 +0000

Kristie – Dust bunny colony!

By: Kristie

Kristie — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 11:07:10 +0000

I learnt about dust the stupid way. My computer started switching itself off at random intervals because it was overheating. It was like some kind of horrible student flat on the inside! All these years been doing all this system maintenance, but had never thought to physically clean the insides out lol.

By: Dan Connor

Dan Connor — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 07:04:27 +0000

Joga – You’re right. Those points are tied together but I decided to leave them separate none-the-less. Good to know they fixed some of it for Vista. That’s pretty much what EXT3 does… it defrags as it goes. I will admit to not knowing as much about Vista because hearing early on about Microsoft’s DRM policies on Vista were the impetus behind my move to Linux and OSX.

By: Joga Luce

Joga Luce — Wed, 27 Feb 2008 05:50:45 +0000

(1 and 5) and (4 and 5) are tied together.

If your drive power goes out while writing to Vm it could confuse it later, although there’s plenty of other things that it could be writing to that get broked.

Likewise the vm causes fragmentation that needs to be cleaned out pretty quickly if you use heavy workloads regularly. A seperate partition strictly for vm is sometimes a good way to go.

Also vista’s new defragmentation program [which is really just someone elses, i forget who] is rebuilt to run on a schedule and also the run in the background consuming low resources! of course you’ll still want to disable it if you’re tracking or doing other disk heavy things, but now you no longer have to leave the computer alone completely. Also you don’t have to have 15% freespace anymore which is nice.