Thanks everyone for your input. I have some serious thinking to do here..., and I am absolutely releived that it won't take $2k to do this! (I was under the impression this was necessary -- may bad :0) ). I may be back again before the credit card is used :0). Thanks again, Chris At 05:10 PM 3/18/2003 -0500, you 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
