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Old 01-26-2011, 09:58 AM
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Default At what point is round robin allocation beneficial

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I'm building a new PC for recording, and could put in 2 audio drives for round robin allocation. At what point is this obviously beneficial or necessary?
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I would say a properly built PC may not ever need RR unless you have a session with so many tracks that 1 drive chokes. I personally have yet to hit that wall with 60+ tracks, but others that use 100+ may have a different opinion. I would ONLY be looking at i7 950 and up cpu's and a socket 1366 X58 mobo for best performance. If you ever DO use RR, be very careful about backing up your session properly as you will have audio files on 2 drives(I have enough trouble keeping track of everything on 1 drive). BTW, your best performance will be on SATA internal drives(eSATA SHOULD perform the same, and both are mush faster than any FW or USB drives).
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Old 01-26-2011, 12:56 PM
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I would say a properly built PC may not ever need RR unless you have a session with so many tracks that 1 drive chokes. I personally have yet to hit that wall with 60+ tracks, but others that use 100+ may have a different opinion. I would ONLY be looking at i7 950 and up cpu's and a socket 1366 X58 mobo for best performance. If you ever DO use RR, be very careful about backing up your session properly as you will have audio files on 2 drives(I have enough trouble keeping track of everything on 1 drive). BTW, your best performance will be on SATA internal drives(eSATA SHOULD perform the same, and both are mush faster than any FW or USB drives).

Pretty much agree with Allbee. Round Robin would have been far more necessary back when HDD were much slower than they are now. There was a time when SCSI was needed just to gain the maximum track counts.

Now if you were mixing a motion picture than RR might be a concern.
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^Yes!^ And don't say SCSI, it makes my fingers hurt.
I never used RR even back in the day. Well, maybe once to learn my lesson. If you're running huge sessions that need multiple drives, purposefully assign certain blocks of tracks to the second drive according to some plan. Put the plan in, say, the Main Master track notes or somewhere that you can't miss it when you open the session in the future. It's no fun to be missing half your files and not remember where you put them.
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^Yes!^ And don't say SCSI, it makes my fingers hurt.
I never used RR even back in the day. Well, maybe once to learn my lesson. If you're running huge sessions that need multiple drives, purposefully assign certain blocks of tracks to the second drive according to some plan. Put the plan in, say, the Main Master track notes or somewhere that you can't miss it when you open the session in the future. It's no fun to be missing half your files and not remember where you put them.
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