[LAU] LAU collaboration coordination?

[Frank Pirrone]

plutek-infinity wrote:
> <snip>
> i did some quick "back-of-an-envelope" figuring while riding around on the bus today, and came up with this worst-case scenario (well... BEST-case, really.... he-he..):
>
> assume 44.1kHz/32-bit - that's around 11MB/track/min
> assume we want to produce a complete record (~60min) - that's about 2/3 GB per track
> assume we're going 24 tracks deep - that's about 16GB
> assume we need some headroom (text files, presets, screenshots, whatever) - call it 20GB instead
> assume we have 20 users, who ALL upload AND download EVERYTHING twice every week - that's somewhat less than 4TB/mo
>
> SO........
> 20GB storage
> 4TB/mo. bandwidth
>
> <snip>

This is absolutely NOT the way to construct a song through on-line 
collaboration.  See my postings for an alternative detailed proposal.  
They generated little comment, so I assume little interest, but this 
magnitude of traffic and bandwidth is both whacked and needless.

Frank