Subject: Re: [linux-audio-dev] USB Souncards
From: Steve Harris (S.W.Harris_AT_ecs.soton.ac.uk)
Date: Sun Jan 20 2002 - 18:45:35 EET
On Sun, Jan 20, 2002 at 06:39:16 +1100, Allan Klinbail wrote:
> When using laptops it is highly recommended to use a firewire hard disk
> as your recording media as the latency of the hard drive on even the
> best laptops is unacceptable under any OS (especially when multitracking
> even just on output).
Really? I haven't had any problems on my (well, work's) dell i8100.
The disk is about as quick as 3.5" drives in desktops were a year or two
ago.
The only thing you have to do is make sure that HD sleep is turned off, or
remember to wake it up.
- Steve
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