EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

Just go for an ATA bus and setup up a software stripe array in OSX. It'll
double the access speed too (great for streaming samples). Be careful
though, because OSX RAIDs are not visible to OS9 (so I've heard). The ATA
controller is probably under $50. Two 120GB drives would run about $300.
That's a lot of storage at 2x7200 (or whatever it is) RPMs. -Jer

> <vaz303@...> wrote:
>> Certainly! Forgot to mention that!
>> Was thinking maybe just a 29160 SCSI card and 10000 RPM
>> SCSI HD would do the trick - however these HD's wouldnt be big
>> enough (36 gigs max?) to house a sample library of that size in
>> it.. So yes -  looks like i would need a raid setup :(  $$$
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> Hm... why $$$?
> As a potential future Mac user I'm really interested in this.
> These days, almost any PC mainboard has some UDMA 133 controller onboard - 1
> or 2 slots, allowing for 2 or 4 total physical drives, in addition to the
> standard IDE ports (which allow for 4 other devices to be connected, such as
> your system disk and CD/CDR/DVD drives).
> A fast and reliable HDD such as, say, a WD 80GB (Maxtors should do the job
> as well) wouldn't cost you more than around 100$ or so, so in the end you
> can get 320GB of fast diskspace for 400$.
> Is that any different on Macs?
> And why RAID? On PCs all those controllers allow for a RAID setup, but it
> simply makes no sense - unless you call the standard "Stripe 0" (I think
> that's what the standard is...) a RAID allready. Single drives are fast
> enough to handle tons of audio data simultaneously (on my current mediocre
> Athlon 1GHz I can run 200+ tracks).
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> Sascha
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