Follow up w/ Hardrive questions

[BlindCowboy]

I made the suggested modifications to optomize my 2000 machine, and they worked wonderfully. One issue I need advice on though:

AMD 2600+ 333mhz
ASUS A7N8X-X
MATROX 450 DUAL MONITOR
ECHO MIA (WDM)
512 DDR Non-ECC
MAXTOR 40GIG 7200
CUBASE VST/32 5.0 R4

I have my drive partitioned 5/30. 5 side is loaded programs and 30 side is audio work only. Drive is formatted NTFS. Last night I recorded 4 stereo tracks w/ a basic reverb VST plugin as a send effect and noticed in the performance meter that the disk was ramping up to ~40%. Recordings were Truetape 32.

I was wanting 16 - 24 stereo tracks, which would be 32 - 48 mono. Is this not possible, or do I still have something (a buffer?) configured incorrectly?

(If your using cubase, what are your channel buffer and memory allocation settings?)

Is there an extensive noticable benefit of running two hard drives in a system as far as performance?

Thanks again for any help,

Blind Cowboy...

[vestast]

Hey Blind Cowboy,

Good to hear that you were able to get the updates installed and everything.

Are you using ASIO drivers in Cubase ?

Running 2 hard drives should give you better performance, I know it does for me.

[BlindCowboy]

Yea, I'm using the ASIO associated w/ my Echo Mia card.

Do you stripe your 2 drives (Raid1) or are you running just 2 EIDE drives w/ software on one and programs on the other?

Thanks,

Blind Cowboy...

[vestast]

I'm just running EIDE with software on one and files on the other.

Are you getting any audio drop outs ? I usually don't have any problems until the CPU meter gets to about 80%, and that's only if I'm running several VST Instruments etc. Even though my Disk meter might go high I'm usually still o.k.

[BlindCowboy]

Nah. No dropouts. Actually, the CPU meter is barely registering (!#$%$ Awesome!) and I never had a problem with playback. Just watching that meter go up on the disk freaked me out. Hell, i'll try to max it tonight and see what happens.

Another question: In the audio setup (where you set the audio driver/bit rate/etc..) in the top left corner you can allocate resources per channel. What do you have yours set to and how did you determine the setting?

Thanks again for all the help.

Blind Cowboy...

[vestast]

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Another question: In the audio setup (where you set the audio driver/bit rate/etc..) in the top left corner you can allocate resources per channel. What do you have yours set to and how did you determine the setting?


Blind Cowboy... [/B]

Not sure about that. I'm using Cubase SX now, but when I used Cubase VST I used to select the ASIO driver for my maudio card and then I would set the buffers etc in the maudio control panel.