Basic Hard Disk Doubt

beanstalk40 · 17th July 2006

Hi All!

I have a Cubase SX3 set up running with Windows XP SP2, running on an AMD 3000+ board with 2gb ram... do all my production on an internal hdd which is 7200 rpm...

I also have an external hard disk which is 7200 rpm...this is connected to the machine via high speed usb2.0... my question is...

Is it possible to record and playback at the same time (a normal recording opreration) using this external hdd... will usb2.0 be fast enough to transfer, write and read data to/from this external device...

Thanks for your time...

B

7161 · 17th July 2006

yes, depends how much data... did u do a deskbench test on the drive? (it's a small free utility to measure your disk sustained transfer rates)

http://www.sesa.es/en/dskbench.htm

beanstalk40 · 17th July 2006

Thank you... will check the app ...

Forgot to mention, i use an emu1820m as the interface...

Warm Regards

B

quincyg · 17th July 2006

you should have no problem at all. just a question of how many tracks you can do at once. i would gues that you can get at least 16 play and 16 record simult. make sure you are not using that same usb bus with any other bus hogs though, like trying to run a usb video card. apparently firewire 400 can handle more tracks than usb2 even though the specs are better for usb2.

17th July 2006	#1
beanstalk40 Gear Head Join Date: Nov 2005 Location: Mumbai, India Posts: 39 Thread Starter	Basic Hard Disk Doubt Hi All! I have a Cubase SX3 set up running with Windows XP SP2, running on an AMD 3000+ board with 2gb ram... do all my production on an internal hdd which is 7200 rpm... I also have an external hard disk which is 7200 rpm...this is connected to the machine via high speed usb2.0... my question is... Is it possible to record and playback at the same time (a normal recording opreration) using this external hdd... will usb2.0 be fast enough to transfer, write and read data to/from this external device... Thanks for your time... B

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7161 3 + infractions, forum membership suspended. Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 1,096	yes, depends how much data... did u do a deskbench test on the drive? (it's a small free utility to measure your disk sustained transfer rates) http://www.sesa.es/en/dskbench.htm

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quincyg Lives for gear Join Date: Mar 2006 Posts: 2,127	you should have no problem at all. just a question of how many tracks you can do at once. i would gues that you can get at least 16 play and 16 record simult. make sure you are not using that same usb bus with any other bus hogs though, like trying to run a usb video card. apparently firewire 400 can handle more tracks than usb2 even though the specs are better for usb2.