[linux-audio-user] Building a DAW - couple of questions

[rob]

On Mon, 2003-06-30 at 19:48, Greg Reddin wrote:
> Hey folks,

> Also, related to hardware, there seems to be a myriad of hard disk
> choices out there.  The mobo seems to have built in support for
> standard ATA IDE and SATA.  I haven't read the manual yet to find out
> the details, but I'm thinking about going the older ATA100, 7200RPM
> route since the drives are about half the price.  Am I shooting
> myself in the foot by doing this?  Should I buy a PCI IDE controller
> or is it possible to get reasonable results from the onboard
> controller?  What are some drives you have had success (or failure)
> with?

My suggestion would be to go for 2 small hardisks rather than one large
for 2 reasons. 1) The big hds get to hot to put acoustic padding
thingy's on them. 2) a seperate hard disk for audio means less chance of
latency problems from the system disk thrashing.

Don't get western digital caviers they will drive you mad with the
racket.

If your going to have mikes in the same room as the computer be prepared
to spend a lot of money on silent psu, fans, acoustic padding etc

Use the onboard controller. I'd stick with ata 100 as it's better tested
and the extra speed you get from sata isn't usefull for recording sound
(though obviously a faster computers allways nicer too use:)
 
> Thanks,
> Greg
> 
> 
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