Link Swanson wrote:
> If y'all were gonna set up a brand new Linux DAW (with WinXP on there
> too), what hard disk choices would you make concerning interface,
> partitioning, and filesystems? Specifically:
>
> 1. How many hard disks?
>
> 2. IDE or SATA?
>
this is the only question thats somewhat easy to answer:
if your mobo has builtin sata ports:
it's much better to get sata disks. not that this would give you any
performance
benefits, but i think the ide-bus will die soon, and sata hdd's are
nowerdays
priced approx. the same as their corresponding ide counterparts.
if you need to get a pci controller:
it might have a performance hit to use a pci sata controller, especially
w/ some via and nvidia chipsets. peak bandwith of 32bit / 33MHz bus
is 133MB/s, thats exact the same as with UDMA133. but some chipset offer
even less performance on the pci bus. in this case ide hdds would be worth
consdering.
> 3. Partition order and size?
>
> 4. Filesystem type?
>
if you ask 100 linux user, 50 will say they use the default fs of their
distro,
the other 50 will argue which of the fs's is the best...
> I'm not too concerned about price: I want the best setup for a DAW that
> will run PlanetCCRMA, 64Studio, and WinXP.
>
there might arise a few other questions, like:
how much disk size do you need ?
is performance/reliabilty/noise level of interest ?
if yes, what is the most important ?
> Thanks!
>
> Link
>
>
>
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