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Originally posted by electric
anyone out there recording on native pc at 24 bit/96k?
how many tracks are you seeing before hitting the wall? |
Funnily enough tonight I was demonstating my Pyramix system to a friend who is considring one and for fun I recorded 48 tracks at 96khz 24bit onto a standard Maxtor 133 7200rpm drive. I wouldn't feel happy about doing this on a critical live event, but it seemed to perform alright.
By my guesstimate 96khz at 24bit is using about 1/4 meg a sec. Standard IDE drives usually quote 40 meg a second throughput, but in real terms I doubt they could do much more than about 15meg per second. That would be in line with my 48 tracks (approx 12 meg/sec?). This then assumes no fragmentation or edits. I also have video editing system where we are working at about 4.5meg/sec sustained on an IDE (I know from experience that much more than this gets unstable) so that would suggest around 20-24 tracks stable.
If you plan to do large track counts and the material is critical, I would certainly look at Serial ATA or SCSI and possibly raid configurations.
Regards
Roland
P.S. I'm using 800FSB MSI motherboard, Pentium 2.4, I gig ram. Drives (audio only) are 80 and 200 gigabyte.
