ultimate harddisk arrived

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Seagate Cheetah 15K.3 Available Capacities



Model Number Capacity

ST318453LW/LC 18 GB
ST336753LW/LC 36 GB
ST373453LW/LC 73 GB

Estimated Flagship Price: $939 (73 GB)

In all imaginable applications the Cheetah 15K.3 is king:

Average access time : 5.9 milliseconds,
Average write access time : 6.2 ms
Finds itself among the idle noise generated by typical 7200 RPM ATA drives

[Alberto R.S.]

Is it really needed? By configuring my Gigarack in the way I explained in my web site I\'ve been able to get 160 voices from my boot hard drive with no problems (no jokes).

Visit my web site for more informations!

Best luck in having fun with music!

Alberto

[killerbobjr]

Originally posted by Alberto R.S.:
Is it really needed? By configuring my Gigarack in the way I explained in my web site I\'ve been able to get 160 voices from my boot hard drive with no problems (no jokes).<font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Arial\">If you are running a sequencer and GS on the same computer, the superior bus handling of SCSI is necessary for maximum performance. On a dedicated GS PC, SCSI is overkill, so yes, a single IDE drive will work great.

[Alberto R.S.]

True. I was not thinking about using a sequencer too in the Giga station.

Alberto

[SOD213]

Originally posted by killerbobjr:
[QUOTE]If you are running a sequencer and GS on the same computer, the superior bus handling of SCSI is necessary for maximum performance. On a dedicated GS PC, SCSI is overkill, so yes, a single IDE drive will work great.<font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Arial\">I can run Sonar, SoundForge, and Giga all on the same PC with 160 voices w/o clicks and pops. Sonar, SF, and Giga are all on the boot drive, and GIG files are another drive. SCSI is just overpriced, in my opinion.

[John Matrix]

Hello Ann!
How many audio tracks can you handle in SF/Sonar while maintaining 160 GS polyphony?

Can you display real time video too?

How about predicting weather phenomena like El Nina simultaneously? (joke)

[killerbobjr]

The main advantage of an all-in-one system (DAW, GS on one machine) is the zero latency, gigabyte bandwidth between the sequencer and GS. If you need ultra tight timing and gobs of controller and ptichbend data, a single PC is the only way to get that.

[Z6]

Originally posted by killerbobjr:
The main advantage of an all-in-one system (DAW, GS on one machine) is the zero latency, gigabyte bandwidth between the sequencer and GS. If you need ultra tight timing and gobs of controller and ptichbend data, a single PC is the only way to get that.<font size=\"2\" face=\"Verdana, Arial\">Also, I\'ve seen the 18GB Cheetah for around $280 on the web. It\'s worth looking at.

[Kenn159]

Forget scuzzy, after years of paying way to much and having conficts between scuzzy and my computer Im very happy with UDMA IDE.
Check out the Western digital 80 gig 7200 rpm udma 100 with a 8 megabyte buffer for $108 at pricewatch.com .
Now thats smart use of your money.

[Kenn159]

Forget scuzzy, after years of paying way to much and having conficts between scuzzy and my computer Im very happy with UDMA IDE.
Check out the Western digital 80 gig 7200 rpm udma 100 with a 8 megabyte buffer for $108 at pricewatch.com .
Now thats smart use of your money.

[Z6]

Thanks for the heads-up Ken. I was thinking of a new system some time next year (maybe) and the Cheetah was starting to look attractive.

I\'ve used scsi before and never had any problems but I\'ve never used it for any music applications or within a system as complex as a daw.

Should I build a system, I\'ll steer clear of scsi until I hear lots of good reports.
(Damn, it sounds so fast, and adding extra storage seems so easy - never mind - I certainly never want to change what ain\'t broke in my giga setup.)

[KingIdiot]

If giga goes 24 bit and 88.2/96k and you want to take advantage of it AND keep things running on one system AND get high poly. I dont see it happening without SCSI, or some sort of new giga architecture that will allow samples to stream from multiple drives, in which case IDE may work

Or Flash RAM images/icons/wink.gif

I think we\'re really gonna hit a brick wall with regards to what we can do with \"cheap\" hardware. Until hard drives change we\'re gonna have some major problems with streaming multiple voices with low latency.

[Kenn159]

I think onboard Raid is the way to go , but you dont want a Raid card with giga if possible because the pci buss creates a bottle neck and increase latency.
To reduce the load from IDE on the CPU simular to Scuzzy make sure the DMA box is checked under the device manager/disk device properties.
Also before you buy a motherboard for giga make sure that it has a agp to cpu bridge ,not a agp tp pci bridge. Because if it has a agp to pci bridge then all the data from your agp video card is sharing bandwidth with the other pci cards like your GSIF sound card.
This Info can be found under Device manage/ system devices