It depends on how many tracks of audio you're using generally.
On my Mac, I can run 12 tracks of stereo audio simultaneously with an
ATA/100 7200RPM IDE drive. I think the interface might only be ATA/66,
but I'm not sure. Basically, it's been plenty for my needs.
To go faster, you could use a software IDE raid (relatively cheap), or
go all out with ultra 3 SCSI (160MB/sec) and a hardware RAID card.
Well, hardware RAID will be faster with IDE or SCSI, but SCSI tends to
perform better under very high load. I've heard that SCSI cards handle
ALL of the I/O work (or as much as possible), where IDE relies on the
host system to do some of it (hence IDE is cheaper).
I say start with one or two fast and big IDE ATA/100 drives and see if
that works for ya and go from there. I bet it'll be fine. Make sure
they're 7200RPM or higher drives and you should be golden.
Dallas
On Wednesday, December 12, 2001, at 05:57 PM, Hugh G. Blaze wrote:
> What's considered slow and fast - how fast is quick enough NOT to slow
> down a 1.4 gig P4 system?
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