Hey everyone,
I am building a new computer using Western Digital's new IDE 1000BB Special Edition (100 Gig) harddrive for my audio storage. It will be partitioned into 50 Gig parts. It's a fast drive, running almost equal (and faster in some areas) with Seagate's SCSI 15000 RPM Cheetah and also has an 8mb cache. You can find it for about $225 US on the web. (Maximum PC did the benchmarking).
I have been thinking... will using a slower harddrive for my applications software (I am using Sonar 1.0) make a difference in the performance and latency issue? Should I use evenly matched harddrives for both my audio storage and applications? Am I thinking too much? I'd rather spend under $100 for a 30-40 Gig harddrive for my apps if I wouldnt notice a difference then over $200 for the 1000BB SE. Any input would be appreciated.
BTW, the specs on the new computer are:
Pentium IV 1.8Mhz Northwood (512k cache),
Asus P4T-E w/ on-board sound,
(2) 512Mb ECC RDRAM RIMMs,
MOTU 24i w/ PCI-324 card,
ATI Radeon 7500.
Jim
Hazlet, NJ
I am building a new computer using Western Digital's new IDE 1000BB Special Edition (100 Gig) harddrive for my audio storage. It will be partitioned into 50 Gig parts. It's a fast drive, running almost equal (and faster in some areas) with Seagate's SCSI 15000 RPM Cheetah and also has an 8mb cache. You can find it for about $225 US on the web. (Maximum PC did the benchmarking).
I have been thinking... will using a slower harddrive for my applications software (I am using Sonar 1.0) make a difference in the performance and latency issue? Should I use evenly matched harddrives for both my audio storage and applications? Am I thinking too much? I'd rather spend under $100 for a 30-40 Gig harddrive for my apps if I wouldnt notice a difference then over $200 for the 1000BB SE. Any input would be appreciated.
BTW, the specs on the new computer are:
Pentium IV 1.8Mhz Northwood (512k cache),
Asus P4T-E w/ on-board sound,
(2) 512Mb ECC RDRAM RIMMs,
MOTU 24i w/ PCI-324 card,
ATI Radeon 7500.
Jim
Hazlet, NJ