track count bottle neck ?

jwh1192 · 20th September 2005

can anyone look at this setup and tell me where you think my bottle neck is ... 13 to 14 tracks per drive at 24/96 ... i would like to get 32 to 48 tracks at 24/96

G4 dual 1gig with max 1.5 gigs ram
dual SATA PCi card - 2 SATA seagate 160gig drives
pro tools HD3 with one 192 I/O
os 10.3.8
pro tools 6.9.1

thank you

john

genericperson · 20th September 2005

in simple terms:
track counts relate to your hard drives
plugin counts relate to your processor speed
virtual instrument counts relate to your ram

it's something to do with your drives/bus architecture. you say "dual SATA". are they in a raid-0 formation? raid-0 is the simplest way to improve drive performance.

also, remember 96k pounds on drives.

20th September 2005	#1
jwh1192 Lives for gear Joined: Jun 2002 Location: los angeles Posts: 866 Thread Starter 1 Review written	track count bottle neck ? can anyone look at this setup and tell me where you think my bottle neck is ... 13 to 14 tracks per drive at 24/96 ... i would like to get 32 to 48 tracks at 24/96 G4 dual 1gig with max 1.5 gigs ram dual SATA PCi card - 2 SATA seagate 160gig drives pro tools HD3 with one 192 I/O os 10.3.8 pro tools 6.9.1 thank you john

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20th September 2005	#2
genericperson Lives for gear Joined: Oct 2003 Posts: 521	in simple terms: track counts relate to your hard drives plugin counts relate to your processor speed virtual instrument counts relate to your ram it's something to do with your drives/bus architecture. you say "dual SATA". are they in a raid-0 formation? raid-0 is the simplest way to improve drive performance. also, remember 96k pounds on drives.