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Old 5th March 2006   #11
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Originally Posted by joemeekfreak
I have 3 hard drives, the main one the OS is running off of, I don't use it for recording though. I have a SCSI 10,000rpm 20 gig that I'll use as well as a external 250 gig firewire drive (which I think is a 7,500rpm drive) I've tried multiple times importing a lot of tracks recorded else where to mix them down, and everytime, I've had to seperate the files up...its been a few months since I've done this sort of thing, and from what I've read, I should split the tracks up on the different harddrives
Digi specifically recommend NOT mixing different drive types, with audio files spread around the different drives. http://www.digidesign.com/compato/os9/hd/drivereq.html

Your SCSI drive should be able to play back more than 50 tracks of 44.1 or 48 if there's medium edit density.

A SATA drive (7200 RPM) should be able to give you 80+ tracks.

Even your FW400 drive should give 40+ tracks..... obviously this is subject to sample and bit rate, and also edit density.... but 34 tracks shouldn't be out of the realms of possibility just using the FW drive.
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