Hi, --- Scott Thomason <scott@xxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 17:10:51 -0500 > Chris <grooveman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > 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? > > So in other words, nobody, myself included, thinks > SCSI is necessary for this type of workstation > nowadays. I don't know if it's necesarry to have scsi drives. It depends on your requirements. I use an ICP Vortex four channel scsi LVD 160 hardware controler with an audio array of eight 3.6ms seek 15,000rpm 18gig hdd. My studio will requre a second channel that's the same as the current one. The scsi controler is in a 64/66 pci slot. I have done mastering of two track via LAN to a mac while rysnc is running and the only person that knew it was happening was me. I expect to run more bandwidth expensive tasks concurrently and don't believe it's going to be a problem. Of course, this remains to be seen. Obviously, I haven't built a personal workstation. I own a small commercial studio and require performance, hardware and data redundancy. I run ext2 with a hot spare swap, 12/24 gig tape backup and rsync a mirror via LAN to a large cheap ide drive. I'm no expert on peformance but for a personal workstation, I would consider it a must to investigate ide drives. ron > ---scott __________________________________________________ Do you Yahoo!? Yahoo! Platinum - Watch CBS' NCAA March Madness, live on your desktop! http://platinum.yahoo.com
