> 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 Chris, Hi. I think you can do this for less money. I just built a new machine last weekend for way less than half what your considering spending, but I had a few bits laying around. Some of what I got is even a bit over the top. You don't need to go so far. Try this for starters: -Cooler Master Case $150 -Antec 365-FCA Power Supply (Manual Fan) $ 80 -Asus - A7V333-X $ 70 -AMD - Athlon Thoroughbred XP 2600+ $250 -DDR-SDRAM PC2700 - Crucial 512MB $ 80 -Thermal Take Technology - Volcano 9 CoolMod $ 26 -Lite-On 48x CD-RW $ 60 -Sony Floppy $ 16 -Radeon 9000-64MB $ 69 ---- $801 -ATA-133 80GB (2MB Cache) System Drive $ 80 -1394 OHCI Controller $ 40 -1394 Maxtor DV rated external drive $200 -RME HDSP 9652 26 Channel + MIDI $450 ---- $770 The stuff at the top I purchased. The stuff near the bottom (Or similar to it) I already had. This machine is running RH 8.0 and the PlanetCCRMA flow. Everything works fine (so far) other than the current Planet kernel cannot enable DMA on my system drive. I expect to have this solved later this week. You can probably keep this down around $1K-$1.1K if you just go with a second internal ATA-133 drive on the second IDE channel and share it with the CD-RW drive. You can always convert it to 1394 later. Just by an ADS Pyro drive case for $80.
