Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] Re: Hardware advice please.
From: Paul Winkler (slinkp23_AT_yahoo.com)
Date: Fri May 25 2001 - 13:27:41 EEST
> >Its not a function of memory size as much as disk throughput and CPU
> >Hz. I can play 32 mono 32 bit (float) tracks on a PII-450 with 148MB
> >of RAM with disks that provide about 18MB/sec maximum internal
> >transfer rate. My system isn't sweating too much at that level, but
> >its definitely working quite hard. These disks would be close to or
> >over their practical limit for 24 96MHz tracks.
>
> So unless the HDD has really fast transfer rate it's useless for
> recording even with the card doing the bulk of the work? That's why I
32 mono 32-bit tracks is useless???
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