Boy, I wish I had had $2K for my system. I'm using IDE drives with no problems. If you've got the bucks spend 'em though. Check out my setup at http://myweb.cableone.net/eviltwin69/ALSA_JACK_ARDOUR.html. It's in the "Low latency, preemption, IRQs, hard drive tuning, and other arcana" chapter, under "Hardware". Jan On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 16:10, Chris wrote: > Hi guys! (and gals). > > I am looking into building a new machine, and I want to do some home-studio > recording with it. I was hoping that some of you could lend some of your > expert advice. > > It sounds like SCSI is pretty-much a must in these situations, true? What > I was wondering about in particular is if anyone has tried anything like > this: Setting up a machine with an IDE hard drive to hold the system files > (say an ata 133 7200 rpm...) and a scsi disk for the dumping ground of the > audio programs such as ecasound, audacity or Ardour. I think I would put > the swap partition on the scsi drive as well. Obviously I am trying to > save a little money here, and I am trying to minimize latency. (I think > that somewhere around the $2K mark is my limit.) I am accustomed to using > multitrack analog units, but digital/computer recording is still extremely > new to me. > > Any thoughts on this? > > I would also love to hear any suggestions regarding what disks, > motherboards, cases and heatsinks people recommend and have had luck with. > > Thanks! > > Chris >
