[Ardour-Users] Audio drive - internal drive?

[Brett Clark]

You never did mention your track counts, sample rates, or if portability is
a requirement.   If your only business requirement is throughput then you
could consider multiple internal scsi drives with a 15k rpm spin running
RAID 0 (striped mode).  Those will give very high throughput, but are also
very expensive.

In my studio i rarely get track counts over 30 and have my sample rates at
24/44.1 using a mini-tower DAW for non-commercial use, so for me a single
SATA-2 7800 rpm internal drive works just fine ( although i have done
24/96k for a couple dozen tracks before on this same hardware ).

Its tough to give a very accurate answer to your drive question without
knowing more info.

--Brett



On Tue, Aug 21, 2012 at 10:07 AM, Nick Ramm <seeyoushortly at yahoo.co.uk>wrote:

> Thanks for the info people..
>
> Ah so it looks like it would better for me to get an internal drive.
> That would be faster, right?
>
> Nick
>
>   ------------------------------
> *From:* Joe Hartley <jh at brainiac.com>
> *To:* ardour-users at lists.ardour.org
> *Sent:* Tuesday, 21 August 2012, 14:27
> *Subject:* Re: [Ardour-Users] Audio drive - file system?
>
> On Tue, 21 Aug 2012 09:06:46 +0100
> John Rigg <au2 at jrigg.co.uk> wrote:
>
> > Good points, but beware of the SSD's habit of losing data when left
> > unpowered for any length of time. The modern ones are much worse for this
> > than the earlier ones. SSDs are great for work in progress, but useless
> > for long term storage.
>
> Obligatory:  http://xkcd.com/285
>
> I work for a company that makes SSD-based networked storage devices, and
> our
> experience is that SSDs are getting better, not worse, at retaining data.
>
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