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Message: <blockquote data-quote="Zoolook" data-source="post: 1016895" data-attributes="member: 21101">It's just about how quickly data can get from the drive to be of any use to the system. If you're working with multiple audio tracks, the data isn't all loaded into RAM at once, it's cached as needed. A slow hdd can result in slow starts, lag and drop outs.Even more importantly is recording audio, where data is written to the hdd as you record. The more tracks you record, the faster the hdd needs to be.Generally, the faster the hdd is, the better the performance of read/write operations, but a lot of other factors come into play, such as whether or not the drive being used is the systems primary hdd (i.e. it contains application data, the OS and other things). A dedicated drive is always better. As drives fill up them become slower and also become fragmented, slowing access.Etc...</blockquote>