EXS 24 Logic Sampler Users Group

<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 :(  $$$

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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