"TJ Hertz" wrote in message
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It seems to me that for multitrack applications, it would be a good idea
to
record half the audio files to one disk and half to another, to avoid so
much seeking between tracks.

No, seeking isn't much of an issue, and hasn't been for a long time.
Rotational delay can be a bigger problem; for typical access patterns, the
computer spends more time waiting for the disk to spin round than it does
for seek head movement. But for large files, that shouldn't be a problem
either ... you'll generally be reading pretty much all of each track.

Probably the most important thing is to avoid getting your disk more than
say 75% full. That way, the file space allocation algorithms will be able
to store the data in such a way it can be retrieved fast.

Tim