20 Mar
2008
20 Mar
'08
10:53 a.m.
On Thu, Mar 20, 2008 at 01:35:44PM +0100, Thomas Ilnseher wrote :
OK.
Ahow... Perhaps. But on typical projects like 70-80 tracks to read
(that's what we're talking about, there are very big bands in our
label), don't you think bandwidth becomes predominant? (I don't have any
idea about it).
What do you mean?
OK, I have to get back to RAID and to learn a bit more about it.
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Am Donnerstag, den 20.03.2008, 09:52 +0100 schrieb Aurelien:
No, I thought about effects plugs (synth, reverb, comp, and so on).
Hi!
The FREE label AMMD in which I work is going to buy and build a
professionnal studio based on free software and destined to produce free
arts only.
The project is quite advanced, but I'd like to know your mind about the
configuration we think about, and if there are people already using this
kinda material, any feedback would be welcome!
So , here it is:
- System : Ubuntu Studio and/or Debian self-customized for
audio-purposes. Does it have a big interest for such audio
applications to install a 64bits distribution? I suppose there will be
problems with some 32bits plugins, although there is the
ndispluginwrapper solution. It's bit like a troll, but it really
matters for us.
Why do you need flash in a studio ? - Should work
essentially with Ardour
- Hardware (PC):
. Proc: we were going on a dual core (Intel or AMD), but as we've
seen that quadri-pro are not so expensive anymore, what do you think
about it?
depends on your workload. I can't comment on ardour or that stuff
(If
the app is multithreaded or not).
You should stay away from 9x00 phenoms, (taht means intel right now, if
you ar going to quadcore) as these chips are buggy. Bugfixed Phenoms
will be called 9x50.
. RAM: 4Gb at least (if quadri-pro, much more)
If you are going to 32bit, each application can use a maximum of
probably 2 or 3 gbytes (don't know exactly the limit). If you start
multiple applications, you can still exploit your ram. as unused ram
would be used as page cache, 4 GB will make sense on a 32bit system, but
8 GB only if you are going to start multiple memory intensive apps in
parallel .
Motherboard: we were thinking about using RAID (5 probably) in
order to increase reading speed, but it's only based on an
assumption (intuition?) that we could raise up the perf that way.
Are we right?
I wouldn't say so. But i have nothing to proof my point.
that's just my
intuition. The raid stuff will increase bandwith, but worsen latency
(eg. access time). I'd say that for TYPICAL sata hdds and usage
patterns, the access time is more important than the bandwith. We'd like
this motherboard not to have audio-embedded.
all modern mainboards i know of have
audio onboard. but you can disable
it in the bios, or just blacklist the driver.
. Graphics: We just want something easy to
install (no proprietary
drivers) that can driver 2 screens in Xinerama mode the easiest way
as possible (my ATI Radeon X850 GTO 16 is not a fair example!). We
don't have any idea about it actually, what about you?
My notebook has an
i965gm, which works perfectly. BUT it's not fast
enough for serious gaming. (compiz-fusion works, and it's fast enough
quake 3). If you are going to use 2 Screens, this implications apply:
a) you need an ADD2 card for your mainboard
b) you can only connect ONE monitor per DVI, the other one needs VGA c) as the driver only supports 2048x2048 textures, you
can forget about
running compiz-fusion with an reasonable resolution per monitor.
OK, let's forget about compiz, it's not the purpose! I think we're gonna
use XFCE which should be light and usable for everybody (even those
sound ingeneers who don't have seen anything else than Mac OS !)
. Hard
Drives: we think about a SATA drive for system, and
day-to-day life, and then think about an external SATA solution
which allows to bring a new drive for every project (there will
probably be something like 3 or 4 albums a year on this studio). Of
course, if we want our assumption upon RAID5 to work, we need to
have two identical eSATA drives for each record session.
Nope, for RAID5 you need
at least 3 harddisks. With 2 harddisks, you
have the choice between RAID0 (performance, lower reliability) and RAID1
(higher reliability)