Hard Drive: SCSI or ATA or?

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Hi,

I would appreciate any help/advice that anyone can provide.

I am an experienced home recorder and am going to make the switch from analog 8 track to hard-disk, computer recording.

The kind of music I am going to do will include guitar, synth, loops, vocals, acoustic drums, etc. But only one instrument will be recorded at a time.

I'm looking to buy a Dell PIII 700MHz, 128 SDRAM, 20 Gig Ultra ATA 7200RPM Hard Drive, and top that off with a Yamaha DSP Factory Sound Card.

My questions are:

(1) How many tracks do you think I will be able to record/playback with this kind of computer? (I want to record and playback 16 tracks at 20 or 24 bit).

(2) Would I be better off buying a SCSI drive?

(3) What's your opinion on the Yamaha DSP Factory?

(4) Is there anything I should look out for when buying a CD-RW?

Thanks!!!

Ian

PS - This is a great site! It's a God send. Keep up the good work.
 
RE: the SCSI/IDE(ATA) question, search the site - there are some enormously detailed threads on this that were running around early March.

The merits of CD-RW have also been discussed at length in a number of other posts. Again, the search will bring most of those up.

Can't tell you anything about the Yamaha DSP

- gaffa
 
Let's just say that the computer you're looking at is more than adequate. Get it without a soundcard and invest in a nice prosumer card ( www.lynxone.com www.gadgetlabs.com ) .

The only thing to really beware of when buying from Dell or Micron is integrated sound or video or networking!!! You want individual cards for everything. If you can't change or remove the soundcard (or video, etc) in their "configuration" page, then it's integrated and you need to select a different model. (if you're not looking online then it might help to visit www.dell.com and www.micron.com)

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