samples that can be played simultaniously?
I am doing immense works which use a large amount of samples playing all at the same time, and often my 7200 320GB Seagate SATA2 suffers disk overload. The drive has been benchmarked very well for it's type, and in some aspects, is comparable to a Raptor. My question regards to the speed, 7200 vs 15000 vs 10000. Would there be a difference in the amount of samples that I could play at once from the same drive, without suffering disk overload? The obvious downside with going SCSI would be the price to storage ratio. I can get 320 gigs with this Seagate for roughly 90 bucks, how much SCSI storage could I get with 90? (rhetorical).
Thanks.
Do SCSI and Raptor drives increase the number of...
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- KVRAF
- 16853 posts since 8 Mar, 2005 from Utrecht, Holland
Is the Seagate SATA2 drive your one and only drive? How much memory do you have?
If you are low on memory (1Gb or less) AND the pagefile sits on the same physical disk as the sample libraries, then the disk is constantly busy with page swapping. I'd advice you to install at least 2GB of RAM and to use more than one disk.
The best stategy to increase performance is to divide workload across multiple disks. So keep one physical disk for system, programs and the pagefile. Use another disk for your sample libraries.
Weather these disks are IDE, SATA or SCSI doesn't matter much imho. Apart from the more expensive disks you also need to buy a SCSI controller PCI card (unless there already is one integrated on your motherboard ofcourse)
If you are low on memory (1Gb or less) AND the pagefile sits on the same physical disk as the sample libraries, then the disk is constantly busy with page swapping. I'd advice you to install at least 2GB of RAM and to use more than one disk.
The best stategy to increase performance is to divide workload across multiple disks. So keep one physical disk for system, programs and the pagefile. Use another disk for your sample libraries.
Weather these disks are IDE, SATA or SCSI doesn't matter much imho. Apart from the more expensive disks you also need to buy a SCSI controller PCI card (unless there already is one integrated on your motherboard ofcourse)
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- KVRAF
- 16853 posts since 8 Mar, 2005 from Utrecht, Holland
Right, so you're REALLY stressing it 
Still: spread workload across multiple disks. In your case that means more than one disk for the sample libraries.
Still: spread workload across multiple disks. In your case that means more than one disk for the sample libraries.
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- KVRAF
- 2565 posts since 30 Mar, 2004 from Phoenix AZ USA
10K raptor will allow you to stream more samples but I couldn't tell you how much more.
Dividing samples among several hard drives is probably a better idea.
You can get smaller less expensive drives and dedicate drives to the most sample hog plugs. (BFD is a big one)
Dividing samples among several hard drives is probably a better idea.
You can get smaller less expensive drives and dedicate drives to the most sample hog plugs. (BFD is a big one)