Eurythmic
majordomo plasticomo
Hey all!
Question. For those of you who record on 7200RPM hard drives, what kind of track throughput do you get with them?
See, I'm building a new computer. Right now I'm using a 5400RPM drive, 8GB - not even an ATA/33 interface. It has decent performance, but not enough if I want to work comfortably with 12-15+ tracks.
At first I thought I would get two 40GB 7200RPM drives, and stripe them into a RAID 0 array. I figured, might as well go with the best. But since then, I've realized that it really wouldn't be all that flexible. I'm going to put my hard drives into acoustic enclosures, and they take 5 1/4" drive bays - so I have to decide on two hard drives.
If I go with RAID, I'm pretty much limited to two 40GB drives due to heat issues. And I'm afraid those 80 gigabytes will run out rather quickly if I don't constantly back things up to CD.
So I thought, why not get one 7200RPM drive, and use that for speed-intensive stuff like Windows, applications, and recording, and then get another large capacity 5400RPM drive for long-term storage - it would be great to get all of my mp3s and videos off CDs and onto my computer full-time, for instance.
It sounds like a good solution to me, but I wouldn't want to go into it, only to find out that the one 7200RPM drive isn't fast enough for recording.
So, those of you who record on 7200RPM drives, and those of you who went the extra mile and got RAID 0 arrays, what kind of performance are you getting?
Question. For those of you who record on 7200RPM hard drives, what kind of track throughput do you get with them?
See, I'm building a new computer. Right now I'm using a 5400RPM drive, 8GB - not even an ATA/33 interface. It has decent performance, but not enough if I want to work comfortably with 12-15+ tracks.
At first I thought I would get two 40GB 7200RPM drives, and stripe them into a RAID 0 array. I figured, might as well go with the best. But since then, I've realized that it really wouldn't be all that flexible. I'm going to put my hard drives into acoustic enclosures, and they take 5 1/4" drive bays - so I have to decide on two hard drives.
If I go with RAID, I'm pretty much limited to two 40GB drives due to heat issues. And I'm afraid those 80 gigabytes will run out rather quickly if I don't constantly back things up to CD.
So I thought, why not get one 7200RPM drive, and use that for speed-intensive stuff like Windows, applications, and recording, and then get another large capacity 5400RPM drive for long-term storage - it would be great to get all of my mp3s and videos off CDs and onto my computer full-time, for instance.
It sounds like a good solution to me, but I wouldn't want to go into it, only to find out that the one 7200RPM drive isn't fast enough for recording.
So, those of you who record on 7200RPM drives, and those of you who went the extra mile and got RAID 0 arrays, what kind of performance are you getting?