Re: Hard disk system advice

Hi Christina..
Good luck with your setup.
A couple of things..
You don't need a SCSI, (no benefit, and more costly),
I personally don't think you need a raid either..
Ram increase will help, but it depends on your Operating system..
Finally, an AVI file at 1hr 36min is a large file, and whilst you seem to
have a powerful processor, it will certainly slow the computer down whilst
running audio, (well it does on my Nuendo setup), especially with any
plug-ins running.
--
Martin Harrington
www.lendanear-sound.com

"Christina" <soundmate@xxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote in message
news:1157497210.462779.315980@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx
Hello to all! I'm just starting out in post production sound and would
greatly appreciate some advice. I've been reading in the group for a
while and get the feeling a lot of you know your stuff in this area
well.

I'm looking to get a feasable hard disk system that'll run a project
with say 10 tracks of mono audio running simeltaneously along with a
1hr36min piece of video (AVI compressed with Indeo 3.2 codec) within
Cubase SX 3 on a capable PC (dual Athlon MP 1.5Ghz, 1GB RAM, DS2416).

With a massive budget of about £100 (if we're lucky!) I hope to add to
the 3 existing hard drives (Seagate Barracuda IV's) to get a little
more of a streamlined response from the setup than I currently am.
These disks are going on 4 years old now and I'm afraid they start
showing it more soon.

I'm unsure whether to get a number of smaller drives and set them up in
a RAID array, try and push the budget to get a SCSI disk (already have
an adapter), or consider something totally different. Perhaps a RAM
upgrade would be more advisable? Performance is more an issue than
space at the moment.

I hope some of you can help with this decision.

Regards

Chris


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