Introduction
There are a few very common ways to store/stream samples in order to relieve strain on your hard drives. These techniques below could be useful if you're suffering from regular disk clipping and distortion issues.
To get some more information on why this may be happening, please see the following article found here.
Different Drives
Many of our customers store samples across multiple drives. For example, you may have one hard drive solely for Percussion libraries, and a second drive for the orchestral families (Strings, Brass and Woodwinds).
What this means is that sample data is spread out more efficiently, instead of all the samples being read from the same drive. One way to think about this is as lanes of traffic: The use of separate drives acting as multiple lanes, which will filter more cars through more efficiently, and a single drive acting as all of the traffic travelling through the same lane.
RAID 0
Another common option our users use is a RAID 0 system. A RAID 0 system will split up all of your libraries contents across multiple drives, meaning all the data is shared across the number of drives in that system. A pro of this is that it will still appear as one drive.
The downside of a RAID system is while it increases i/o performance, a RAID set up will not protect your data should one drive fail. This is because it is shared data, not mirrored copies.
Here are some links to getting started with RAID:
How to build a RAID 0 on Windows 10
Individual Articulations
In most of our libraries, you'll find a folder option for "Individual Articulations". These patches contain less sample data, as they load only one articulation at a time. Which in turn results in streaming less data from the drive.
The ensemble patches we have available will load multiple articulations at once. The individual articulations are a great solution for those who do not use keyswitches, or who do not need access to all articulations at the same time.