Resolume Forum

I am using a Dell Latitude d630. The computer comes with a SATA drive and a DVD drive. I ordered a hard drive enclosure (IDE) and drive to replace the DVD drive. The IDE hard drive has one big partition and the SATA drive has two - One for a production OS and one for Video files. The ensures that the video files are on the outer part of the hard drive (in theory). The production hard drive has all the programs that I use on a daily basis and for most of my video work. The IDE drive has XP installed with resolume and the bare bones software i need for gigs. I opted not to use windows boot manager in case one of the drives crashes.

I have a trial version of resolume on the production OS. It shares the same "My Documents folder" as the gig partition. The partition with the video files is assigned the same drive letter on both operating systems. This allows resolume to share the same decks and settings on both operating systems.

As always, I have turned off all uneeded windows services on both partitions.

If either hard drive crashes before or on a gig I can get by (I have some flash files on the IDE drive).

Comments, questions and suggestions welcome

I think you got it. My main laptop is a Intel Core 2Duo t7200, 120GB 5400 rpm, 1 GB RAM, Nvidia 7600 w/256MB dedicated ram. I have a dual boot XP OS on this same hard drive, one to work like editing, internet, etc. The other XP OS is only for the gig's and has only resolume installed. I use an external hard drive (Western Digital MyBook 500GB ES Edition) 7200 rpm conected by e-sata to my laptop. This external hard drive has all the video loops and samples.
My setup isn't exactly like yours but the principle is the same and it's what I and others recommend.

[Edited on 15-11-2007 by miau]

I had an external hard drive up until about three weeks ago when my friend's idiotic roommate tripped over the cord two hours before Carl Cox!! Some flash files got me by that night. Anyways, the Seagate FreeAgent hard drive Did appear to be a tad bit faster than my current setup. The Seagate is an eSATA drive but I had it connected through a PCMCIA adapter (which cuts the speed down to 1.5G)