 Raid Drive, Any audio uses for a RAID drive? |
|
|
|
|
 Sun 4 Jan 2004, 23:30
|
Newbie
Group: Members
Posts: 5
Joined: 17-Oct 03
From: Culver City - US
Member No.: 26,955
|
Well, I've inherited a G4 w/ a 149 GB Raid drive, and I'm going to try to put together a small recording system bit by bit. The Mac hard drive is only 17 GB. I am intending to use LOGIC 6 Gold. I will be recording live sound as well as midi.
Can I use the RAID drive to advantage, or if not can I reconfigure it as individual drives?
I am really a novice and need some advice here.
Thanks and
PAX
jfitz
|
|
|
|
|
|
|
 |
Replies
|
|
Sat 21 Feb 2004, 14:57
|
Newbie
Group: Members
Posts: 1
Joined: 21-Feb 04
From: Madrid - ES
Member No.: 36,433
|
IMO configuring a RAID system to increase I/O performance is a nice thing to do.
Pretty much agree with dixie, just like to add:
While a RAID 0 (stripe or concat) will increase both read and write performance, any mirroring RAID level (1, 3, 5) will increase read perfomance, but, depending basically on the hardware I/O configuration, might decrease write performance (to write to a mirror, you obviously need to physically write data more then once), and is therefore not an option for audio recording (except for a very sofisticated setup, i.e. configuring your loops and samples - read-only when recording - on a mirror.
I don't have RAID experience with Macs, though.
Cheers,
deFries
|
|
|
|
|
|
1 User(s) are reading this topic (1 Guests and 0 Anonymous Users)
0 Members:
|
|
|
