Playback and Recording : Record Setup : Working with Hard Drives for Recording : Allocating Audio Drives in Your System

Allocating Audio Drives in Your System
To allocate the audio drives in your system:
1 Choose Setup > Disk Allocation.
2 In the Disk Allocation window, assign a hard drive for each track by clicking in the Root Media Folder column and selecting a volume from the Disk Allocation pop-up menu.
 
Only drives designated as R (Play and Record) can be selected in the Disk Allocation window. For more information, see Performance and Transfer Volumes.
 
A folder with the session name is created on each hard drive, containing subfolders for audio and fade files.
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To assign a track to a different hard drive, click the track and select a drive name.
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To assign all tracks to the same hard drive, press Option (Mac) or Alt (Windows) while selecting a drive name.
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To make a continuous selection, Shift-click a track name (in the Track column) to extend the selection to include already-selected tracks and all tracks in between.
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To make a noncontiguous selection, Command-click (Mac) or Control-click (Windows) a track name in the Track column to extend the selection to include already-selected tracks without including tracks in-between.
3 To save recorded audio files to an existing folder (without creating another session folder), select Customize Allocation Options, then click Change and choose the folder. To create subfolders in this folder, select the Create Subfolders for Audio, Video, and Fade Files option.
4 To automatically distribute any newly created tracks among the drives connected to your system, select the Use Round Robin Allocation for New Tracks option.
If you are using Round Robin Allocation and want audio to be recorded to your system’s start-up drive, do the following:
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Open the Workspace browser (Window > Workspace) and set the Volume Designator for your system volume to R (Record and Playback). See Workspace Volume Designation.
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Round Robin Allocation is not supported with partitioned hard drives.
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If you want to exclude individual, valid, mounted volumes from Round Robin Allocation passes, open the Workspace browser and make the volume safe, by designating it as P (Playback only) or T (Transfer). For more information, see Audio and Video Volume Designators.
5 When you are finished, click OK.