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Digi 002 Firewire. What are the limitations?
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What are the test results when hanging an 002 of a single FW port and then hanging your 100 gig Fw drive off of the 002 and recording, lets say, 10 tracks or so? Any performance issues there? Donovan<hr /></blockquote><font size="2" face="Verdana, Arial">These are some good questions. You see the Digi 002 had two firewire ports on the back and it's possible to daisy chain other devices off of the second port like a drive to store sessions. What happens? Does the track count get reduced? How much can she take? |
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Re: Digi 002 Firewire. What are the limitations?
bump, bumpity bump, bumpity bumptiy bump, bump [img]images/icons/grin.gif[/img]
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Re: Digi 002 Firewire. What are the limitations?
theoretically, IEEE1394 has a throughput of up to 400Mbps - enough for many more tracks than PTLE currently offers.
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Re: Digi 002 Firewire. What are the limitations?
"1394 has some processing overhead relative to PCI-based products like the 001. However, the overhead is roughly a fixed number of cpu cycles. So, on faster computers, the overhead becomes a smaller and smaller percentage of the total CPU cycles available per processing period.
Using the fastest machines available right now, the overhead we've measured is about 5-10%. So, if you got 10 plug-ins with the 001, you'd get 9 plug-ins on the 002. However, as machines get faster, you'll see the plug-in performance delta continue to shrink (to the point of being insignificant)." Kenn LeGault Administrator (for Digi)
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Re: Digi 002 Firewire. What are the limitations?
I'm going to have to study up on this.
Not familiar enough with specs. |
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Re: Digi 002 Firewire. What are the limitations?
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Do you reccommend FireWire HD's to be used with the 002 or would SCSI drives still be better? D |
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Re: Digi 002 Firewire. What are the limitations?
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However, It is not clear if this power can be used for any built in EFX in PT LE mode.
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Re: Digi 002 Firewire. What are the limitations?
oops, should-a-said "thanks Kenn". [img]images/icons/smile.gif[/img]
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Re: Digi 002 Firewire. What are the limitations?
Here's something interesting:
IEEE 1394 and the Windows Platform I don't know if Digi is using 1394a or b but to get the higher speeds above 100Mbps you need optical fiber cable. IEEE 1394b Higher speeds and longer distances Completely compatible with IEEE 1394a 800 Mbps to 3200 Mbps data transfer over 4.5 meters copper 100 Mbps over 100 meters Category 5 UTP wiring 400 Mbps over 100 meters plastic optical fiber 3200 Mbps over 100 meters glass optical fiber Easier to integrate into chipsets than IEEE 1394a |
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Re: Digi 002 Firewire. What are the limitations?
I'm not sure about that digi comment (no pun intended), but I think I remember our ex-fellow-duc-er Mark Knecht explain to us that Firewire didn't require CPU power (at least insignificant) but if for every 10 plugs in PCI you loose one in Firewire , then (in terms of comparing it to PCI)it taxes more on the CPU. [img]images/icons/confused.gif[/img] right?
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