30 Jun
2003
30 Jun
'03
8:45 p.m.
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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