SCSI Hard Disk

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Hi,

I am currently running Cakewalk Sonar on my notebook computer, PIII 900Mhz, 256 MB RAM, and recording via a USB Audio Interface.

With the hard drive built into my notbook i can usually manage 15-20 tracks without too much slowdown. Im aware that the spindle speed of my internal hard disk is probably below 5400RPM. Because of this, i bought an Ultra SCSI 10 Gig external hard drive from La Cie, with a spindle speed of 7200 RPM. It supposedly allows for transfer rates of up to 20 MB/sec. I will most likely be using Adaptec's Slim SCSI 1480, which allows connectivity of Ultra SCSI devices to a laptop computer, as a SCSI adapter. Im curious if anyone has any remarks on whether this sounds like a good plan or not, and if a 20MB transfer rate is adequete for projects containing 20-24 tracks.

One other question. Other than track count, what other advantages does having an additional hard drive deditcated solely for audio files have?

thanks,

rich
 
i've got 2 ultra scsi 160 drives @ 10k rpm... i've gone up to 41 tracks (keep in mind a lot of these tracks were just snippets) without any problems. not sure what the data transfer rate is of those drives, but it seems to be good enough. i should also mention that this is at 24 bit/48k.

i think you'll be fine.

one other benefit of having audio on one drive and OS on the other is when you upgrade your OS, your audio is still there. plus you could backup to the other drive. The main advantage i can think of is that sonar runs off drive 1 and your audio off drive 2. i think this would result in better performance...but i could be wrong.

--tim
 
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