Brent Busby wrote:
On Tue, 2 Nov 2010, Joe Hartley wrote:
On Tue, 2 Nov 2010 12:48:19 -0400
Allan Wind <allan_wind@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> wrote:
On 2010-11-02T16:44:31, Harry Van Haaren wrote:
There are RAM-SSD modules available. Plugs in via SATA 300 or PCI or
something IIRC...
That'd be awesome for anything that needs fast IO & sustained writing.
If I remember the company Ill post here, Cheers, -Harry
Fusion-io?
I am currently working in QA for a company that makes storage systems
(NAS/SAN appliances), and had a chance to work with some of the
FusionIO products. Holy guacamole, they are blazingly fast! They're
pricey, though, since that kind of speed comes at a premium.
I've also had the chance to work with a number of different SSDs, and
have just purchased one to install into my studio machine. My
experiences at work lead me to believe that the SSDs now available are
reliable and fast enough for audio work.
Something that's been occuring to me today:
Linux has ramdisk support, though it's seldom used or talked about as
much as ramdisks used to be on the Amiga platform long ago...
I can hardly imagine an Ardour project bigger than 512MB. A 1GB project
would be humongous...
These days you can have 8, 16, 24...even more...gigabytes of real memory...
What's really stopping anyone from having an Ardour project in ram, and
bypassing the whole sata/scsi subsystem completely, saving the kernel a
ton of i/o, and making *lots* of simulateous tracks possible?
Don't forget to include a heavy-duty UPS able to keep that system up and
running long enough to write all those gigabytes of data to storage that
doesn't require constant power to maintain it's contents! ;-)
--
David
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