Apple Logic Pro /LogicExpress Discussion

> Heres how I defrag my audio drive. I backup my entire Lacie 
> 160GB fw drive to my internal 160gb backup drive. Erase it, 
> then copy everything back. Bam its defragged as best as its 
> gonna get. And FYI, it has not helped a single bit in getting 
> any higher track counts or less of a CPU load. Hate to say it 
> but its not really worth it to even bother..

I tend to agree with Chris that defragging isn't likely to make much of a
difference unless the disk is really fragmented badly and you are accessing
a lot of audio simultaneously. Even then, if it is a FireWire connection to
the computer, the FireWire could end up being more of a bottleneck than the
fragmented files. FireWire is 400 Mbps (mega "bits" per second). A Serial
ATA drive is 150 MBps (mega "Bytes" per second). That's equivalent to 1,200
mega bits per second. That's 3x faster than a FireWire 400 interface.

Still, 400 Mbps is damn fast. You can get 50 MB of data every second. That's
an entire CD Wave track in one second. Or eight entire CD tracks in 8
seconds.

If you have 20 mono audio tracks at 44.1kHz and 16 bits, that's 88,200 bytes
per second times 20 = 1.764 MBps. Well within the 50 MBps that's available.

Double check my math. I did the calculations fast and didn't double check.

Kamm