Re: [LAU] Hard drive for "/" should be also 7200 rpm?

Hi Yosef,

If your recording to disk bandwidth becomes important when you're doing
lots of I/O. For recording a couple of channels I wouldn't worry about 5400
rpm, but if your doing 24 tracks at a high sampling rate, then your disks
bandwidth may become an issue.

Remember that HDR applications like Ardour do have a buffer of couple of
seconds, so your disk access can lag once in a while so long as the
troughput is fast enough to keep up. I wouldn't go with 72000 for the
access times, it won't make a significant impact. I'd sooner concider doing
some sort of soft-RAID to spread the load between two disks :)

HTH, -Harry

On Sun, Feb 19, 2012 at 8:56 PM, Yosef Werner <yw.werner@email-addr-hidden> wrote:

> Hi all,
>
> for testing reasons I've installed Arch-Linux on a second HD with 5400
> rpm. The recording and production is on the first HD with 7200 rpm,
> openSuSE 10.2 and kernel-rt. After some work with Arch-Linux it seems that
> it could be the next platform for the DAW. My question is if a HD-7200 rpm
> is also necessary for the system to prevent x-runs? For sure, the HD-7200
> rpm is mounted for recording.
>
> Thanks for sharing your knowledge,
>
> Yosef
>
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