[LAU] Thinkpad R60 for Audio Update - Firewire Conflicts with Audio

[Dmitry Baikov]

On 4/10/07, Robin Gareus <robin at gareus.org> wrote:
> PCMCIA is ok, but not great for low latency. (adds one extra interface
> between PCI bus & sound-card). - the cheap solution is to get a PCMCIA
> card for your hard-disk - instead of using the built-in firewire for the
> disk. - maybe you want to do that anyway. use the built-in firewire to
> an external audio-device and the PCMCIA for storage.

Quite the opposite.
PCMCIA is great for latency. That "extra" PCI bridge does NOT affect
audio latency.
Firewire latencies are bigger than PCI/PCMCIA and will always be. Ask
Pieter Palmers for details.

So if you are for low latency, PCI/PCMCIA is unbeatable.
If you want numbers, I can provide them for Echo Indigo IO and RME MultifaceII.
Ask somebody to jdelay their Firewire card.


Regards,
Dmitry.