Alrighty! In the last article we covered RAID 0 which are also known as Striped Volumes. Fun stuff, right? Well this time around we are going to give a few tips about RAID 1 arrays, which are also known as Mirrored Volumes. Mirroring your volumes adds a level of redundancy or backup to your system, in case of a HDD failure. And as we all know, all DJs carry backups, right?  Just think of a “mirrored” array as a form of backup that you carry right inside of your CPS.  Here’... Read Full Story

In the previous three articles we discussed a number of cheap or even free methods of boosting computer system performance and getting the biggest bang for your buck.  In TNT3 we touched upon hard drives and partitions as well as briefly mentioning something called a “striped volume” among other things.  Building upon that, we will take it a step further with this and the next few articles - talking about RAID setups, which includes that mysterious animal called a striped volume.  Read Full Story

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... Read Full Story

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... Read Full Story

For this installment, lets talk about another easy (and cheap) method of getting the most out of your CPS or any other computer for that matter.  What I am referring to ties in with the last articles where I mentioned Virtual Memory.  Virtual Memory or just VM is a portion of the hard drive that is dedicated to acting as a temporary storage of data, device drivers and so on like RAM.  And performing two simple tasks with VM can drastically improve system performance as well as speed up the b... Read Full Story

For this installment, lets talk about another easy (and cheap) method of getting the most out of your CPS or any other computer for that matter.  What I am referring to ties in with the last articles where I mentioned Virtual Memory.  Virtual Memory or just VM is a portion of the hard drive that is dedicated to acting as a temporary storage of data, device drivers and so on like RAM.  And performing two simple tasks with VM can drastically improve system performance as well as speed up the b... Read Full Story

For the first Tips N Tweaks article, lets talk about the single most important, easiest and one of the cheapest means of improving the performance of any computer - RAM.  RAM or Random Access Memory is the one part of the computer that is fairly easy to upgrade or add once you know what type your computer supports.  Having enough RAM is absolutely crucial in that all of the programs, hardware and the operating system all take up different sized chunks of memory as soon as you turn the comput... Read Full Story

For the first Tips N Tweaks article, lets talk about the single most important, easiest and one of the cheapest means of improving the performance of any computer - RAM.  RAM or Random Access Memory is the one part of the computer that is fairly easy to upgrade or add once you know what type your computer supports.  Having enough RAM is absolutely crucial in that all of the programs, hardware and the operating system all take up different sized chunks of memory as soon as you turn the comput... Read Full Story

The Tips N Tweaks series of articles that I will be writing are going to cover a number of quick, inexpensive and - most importantly - effective means of improving the system performance of your CPS. Each article will cover one topic of discussion in order to give you easy to read reference materials. Many of the articles will also have a cumulative effect on improving system performance. It should be noted that most of these tips that I will be freely sharing will require that you are eit... Read Full Story

The Tips N Tweaks series of articles that I will be writing are going to cover a number of quick, inexpensive and - most importantly - effective means of improving the system performance of your CPS. Each article will cover one topic of discussion in order to give you easy to read reference materials. Many of the articles will also have a cumulative effect on improving system performance. It should be noted that most of these tips that I will be freely sharing will require that you are eit... Read Full Story