Interesting idea.
However, then won't you wear your RAM out instead? That's also a lot of
audio to lose if a fault should arise such as a power brown out. You could
also switch to solid state drives and just replace often enough.
I'm back in Windows now but what I do is change the allocation table size to
the largest for the hard drive that contains all my audio files. They're all
wavs, so the larger allocation table size isn't that much of an efficiency
issue. I also keep my file names to less than 8 characters (so it doesn't
have to do a long file name lookup back to the 8.3 file name) and make sure
any indexing is switched off anywhere. I also don't use anti-virus on an air
PC.
This helps reduce hard disk access to a minimum and when it does, it
reads/writes in larger chunks more suitable for the files I use rather than
lots of little reads and writes.
Failing that, replace your hard disc drive on a regular schedule, ie: once a
year etc... as part of a maintenance plan.
So far I have never had heads give up on me. The motor for the disc seems to
die most of the time I lose drives which is few and far between.
----- Original Message -----
From: "Rob Landry" <[email protected]>
To: "Rick" <[email protected]>
Cc: <[email protected]>; "'User discussion about the Rivendell
Radio Automation System'" <[email protected]>
Sent: Monday, September 22, 2014 11:02 PM
Subject: Re: [RDD] Looking for Looping Software to record Broadcast
On Sun, 21 Sep 2014, Rick wrote:
- Everything recorded to ramdisk, then moved to physical HD once hourly
recording is complete (prevents killing your HD by constantly writing to
it
during recording).
I've never encountered that problem. Where did you learn about it?
Rob
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