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Hard drive for two channel Wavelab recording
Hi All,
I am setting up a system to capture voice recording into Wavelab, a two channel application. In terms of audio, that's all the system has to do. Among other stuff it is: Single 2.4Ghz Xeon Intel® 875P Chipset: 800/533MHz FSB 512MB Dual Channel 400MHz DDR Dual-Channel UltraDMA 133 IDE Controller Dual-Channel Serial ATA controller Promise MultiRAID: 2 UltraATA 133 Ports / 2 SATA Ports I can either add one more large hard drive for the audio data, or add two smaller drives in a RAID for about the same price. Which setup is better for the relatively simple job of capturing a voice recording - one drive or two in a RAID? Thanks, TW |
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Hard drive for two channel Wavelab recording
I am setting up a system to capture voice recording into Wavelab, a
two channel application. In terms of audio, that's all the system has to do. Among other stuff it is: Single 2.4Ghz Xeon Intel® 875P Chipset: 800/533MHz FSB 512MB Dual Channel 400MHz DDR Dual-Channel UltraDMA 133 IDE Controller Dual-Channel Serial ATA controller Promise MultiRAID: 2 UltraATA 133 Ports / 2 SATA Ports I can either add one more large hard drive for the audio data, or add two smaller drives in a RAID for about the same price. Which setup is better for the relatively simple job of capturing a voice recording - one drive or two in a RAID? This system is ludicrously over-specified for the job :-) No need for RAID, unless data security is paramount. Using the system drive for audio would be fine. A separate partition would keep things tidy. There's no disk access required for program or system while recording into WaveLab - if Windows did take it into it's head to make a small disk access, it won't interfere with recording one stereo track. Haven't you got an old Pentium 500 or so lying around? Put a decent-sized disk into it, and use all that power for something that's worth it. |
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Hard drive for two channel Wavelab recording
This system is ludicrously over-specified for the job :-)
Okay, that's good to hear. The main system that this is going to be connected to is optimized for 3D animation and video editing. I knew -that- system was even more ludicrously over-specified for audio, so I didn't check into the minimal requirements for audio alone. Unfortunately, the video editing program won't tolerate a high end sound card in the same box. So, by getting something like this, I can use it for the audio capture, and also use it as a rendering node for the 3D application. (I can ethernet the task of rendering a scene to this computer while I continue modelling, or make both computers work on a scene under deadline.) BTW, I'm going to recommend that the computer vendor look into the audio market, because I've noticed a lot of similarity between the concerns. www.boxxtech.com No connection except I live in Austin too. Thank you everybody for your help. TW (Posting from Google because Win98 on my old system decided it didn't like Outlook newsgroups) |
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