HD at 96K and hardrives

[trombino]

Just wondering what/how people are using hard drives with their HD rigs... I'll be using mine at 96K and am wondering:

Can a session run fine on a single, non-partioned 36GB drive? Or am I going to have to go back to splitting sessions across multiple drives? What about smaller drives, like 18GB?

Do 15K rpm drives help with higher sampling rates?

I thought I had more questions, but that's all I can think of right now...

Thanks!

Mark

[Krusty]

how many tracks did you get at 48 or 44.1?

well, cut that in half at 96.

So, depending how many tracks you ususally record, you have your answer.

partitioning, faster drives, etc all help.... but not any better/worse than before.

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Mark,

Can I get 32 tracks of 96KHz audio off of one unpartitioned 36GB hard drive? Can I get more than that with a 15K rpm drive?

<font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">Yes, it depends on how heavy the edits are. You could probably get way more that that. People are getting 64 tracks at 44.1k on IDE/firewire drives at 7.2k rpm. Digi is way conservative. If they say it can be done it can be done and then some.

Just do some tests yourself and see what you think. You will be pleasantly surprised at what you could get done on one drive.

HTH

Darren
www.dixondigital.com

[trombino]

To clarify my earlier post, are 36GB 10K rpm SCSI drives too large to be reliable? Can I get 32 tracks of 96KHz audio off of one unpartitioned 36GB hard drive? Can I get more than that with a 15K rpm drive?

I'm just looking for real world experience. Digi has always been extreamely conservative regarding track count. I'm curious what people are actually experiencing.

Thanks again.

Mark