SamTherapy opened this issue on Oct 20, 2011 · 30 posts
SamTherapy posted Thu, 20 October 2011 at 4:43 PM
Here's hoping I can get the new rig soon. These old boxes are ancient.
In truth, the absolute best HD I ever had was a SCSI IBM at 10,000 rpm. That baby was fast.
Slow drives aren't really an option with recording music; I need something that's going to record at least 16 tracks simultaneously without any dropouts, slowdowns or appreciable latency. Sure, quite a lot of that is due to the processor but a lot is also down to disk access. I don't think 5000 rpm is going to cut it, unless they all have a super wide data bus these days.
Recording at CD quality takes 10mb per minute for each stereo pair, so 16 tracks is 80mb per minute. There may well be times when I need to use 32 or more tracks at once, so the disks are going to have to throw a lot of data around pretty damn fast.
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