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Subject: about dedicated audio drives...
Original Message Date: 14-Jul-03 @ 05:52 PM - about dedicated audio drives...
but will I get this performance gain if I use the internal hard drive as my back-up, and load/stream, samples and files from an external firewire drive? i.e. is it the PRESENCE of audio files on the system drive or thier USE that is not recommended?
thanks.
Message 11/22 17-Jul-03 @ 04:16 PM - RE: about dedicated audio drives...
Message 12/22 19-Jul-03 @ 03:23 PM - RE: about dedicated audio drives...
Also, is RAID-0 any good?
spec: P4 1.4 (400mhz bus, 256kb cache)
384 mb RDRAM (400mhz) (soon 700+)
Message 13/22 19-Jul-03 @ 04:43 PM Edit: 19-Jul-03 | 04:44 PM - RE: about dedicated audio drives...
SCSI is all but dead in the home studio PC world. And Raid is overkill unless it's data reliability you're going for instead of speed. You will run out of processor headroom way before you run out of disk bandwidth, trust me.
I recommend one of the newer Maxtor or Western Digital drives with the 8MB cache. I've noticed my new one is considerably faster than my other drives.
psy
Message 14/22 19-Jul-03 @ 07:44 PM - RE: about dedicated audio drives...
Message 15/22 21-Jul-03 @ 01:55 PM - RE: about dedicated audio drives...
-Craig
Message 16/22 23-Jul-03 @ 04:05 PM - RE: about dedicated audio drives...
Message 18/22 23-Jul-03 @ 09:33 PM - RE: about dedicated audio drives...
But seriously, an ATA-100 drive can stream more tracks than you'll likely need.
-Craig
Message 19/22 24-Jul-03 @ 01:32 AM - RE: about dedicated audio drives...
If not, how long did it take them to special order it for you?
Message 20/22 24-Jul-03 @ 02:05 PM - RE: about dedicated audio drives...
When USB arrived for my S6K I very happily said goodbye to SCSI
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