Samples may be stored on any medium which is readable by the computer where PCAD 2000 is running. Typically, this includes the primary hard disk and any floppy drives available on the computer. In some cases, the computer may offer higher-capacity removable media, like a Zip drive or a Syquest drive, or the computer may be on a network, in which case storage may be provided by one or more server computers. So long as the storage medium is available to be read through a standard Windows 95 File Open dialog, samples may be stored there.
PCAD 2000 will place any machine-readable output in the same directory as the sample. Since scoring transcripts, for example, tend to be much larger than the sample that generates them, care should be taken when using low-capacity media such as diskettes as a source and destination.
GB Software strongly recommends that all PCAD 2000 users follow good computing practice by carefully backing up all critical data (such as input samples) on a regular basis to a location that can be stored separately from the subject computer.