Which needs upgrading?

[Whateva]

I've been having trouble recording things here and there for a while because Nuendo likes to tell me that I'm "recording too many tracks at once" when I'm doing something like 2 mono tracks total. At first I was thinking I didn't have enough RAM then I was thinking that I might just be recording at too high of a sample rate (192), so I double my RAM (2 gigs now) and cut the sample rate down to 48. It appeared to be working well and I think the sample rate had the most to do with it but after not having an issues for a while I once again have been getting this too many tracks recording crap. The only thing left that might need upgrading would be either the hard drive (5700rpm) or the HD interface (IDE). In the interest of saving some money and not figuring out by upgrading both could any of you fine people give me a clue as to what could not be fast enough here?

My processor is an Athlon XP 2800 which I don't think would need upgrading and I'm using an M-Audio Firewire 1814, which can handle 192 so I doubt that's it either.

 

[solo.guitar]

How much space do you have now? Maybe that's the cause of the errors, not memory or CPU.

You have plenty of RAM.

I would upgrade the hard drive to 7200 RPM.

How fast is your CPU?

Also, I wouldn't waste time recording at 48 sample rate unless it's for video.

Maybe record at 44.1/24-bit instead of 48/16-bit?

 

[altitude909]

You can only record simultaneously on 2 inputs only at 192.

Other features include 192kHz fidelity on 2 inputs

I have yet to see ANYTHING other than manufactures marketing hype that suggests that recording at 192 has any benefit whatsoever so I would stay at 24 bit/44.1 and you should have no problems

Solo is correct though, dont bother with a 48k sample rate since you will have to change it to 44.1 anyway at some point if you want to put it on cd