On Thursday 27 February 2003 10:53 am, synrat wrote: > I wouldn't spend it all on scsi, just get a few large ide drives and > use them for storage while doing the work on scsi ( maybe raid5 ). > Don't waste money of xeon. If you're going to use applications optimized > for sse2 then get pentium4. If not, then get dual athlon mp. > Get at least 2gb of ram, the faster the better. I always use athlons, > because they work 3 times faster with floating point, but you may not need > that. > > On Thu, 27 Feb 2003, et wrote: > > snip > > this box should be UFW scsi2 raid I guess
U160 is closer the norm now although U320 and FC would be faster (but more expensive. UW SCSI2 is slower in some ways than ATA100 (133). I use 15K IBM drives. I get about 45MB actual transfer which is more than enough for video let alone audio. I remember doing 3MB in the bad old days and the pops were always due to the OS messing with the head. There are a lot of motherboards that come with U160 (Adaptec) adapters. I've been using surplus SGI workstation boards at about $70 a pop but you can get a decent Intel server board for $600 As for recording, the most important thing is to record on a drive which is not used by any other process, that way the head stays where you left it. The benchmark for any recording system sb the korg Multitrack which can be purchased for about $400. I've seen many people spend $25,000 and not do any better. Any serious processing will do a lot of FP so I'd take the dual Athlon advice. There are some MSI dual K7 boards with SCSI that can be had for a little over $200. Save your money for the labor you will invest getting the "Marc" or equivalent to work. While many people juggle 16 tracks in mixing I don't know anyone who knows how to use more than 4 input channels. In fact all the old timers I know use one. The multitrack board will probably be a millstone more than an aid to creativity. Of course you need to keep all the tracks in sync and be able to mix and feed them to the performer - that isn't kmix. Jim Tarvid
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