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Tegma Updates Pc Part 2!
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Tegma
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Posted : Jan 23, 2003 05:09
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ok everybody so we got a AMD athlon xp2400, 2 Maxtor udma-133 80gb harddisks with 8mb cache,A7V8X Asus Motherboard,512mb Ram.
Now the question is, is it better to run the harddisks in RAID mode?
Has anyone of u tried this before for music?
Or should we use them as one system harddisk and one audio harddisk?
And what is the best OS for music ,Win2k or XP???
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O.zen
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Posted : Jan 23, 2003 05:25
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hi,first of all congred. about the new copm.
now for your q. you certtenly dont need a whole h.d for the system unless you mean system->programs you can give your audio and alot of h.d to the projects, for the os you can give 6gb spase it will feet.
my advice to you since you have lots of spase give one h.d to the all other stuff that not audio or music producing,it could be internet or vidoes,imeges,grafical prog. ect.
arrange your h.d's logicaly and keep it order it will help you from crushing.
good luck guys!
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O.zen
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Posted : Jan 23, 2003 05:28
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oh,about the xp/win2k:
XP- and not a singel word more!! 
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Arie Molecular
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Posted : Jan 23, 2003 08:44
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little tip will follow ,how many h.drives you have ?
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If You FEEL THE HEAT Around The Corner....
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monno
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Posted : Jan 23, 2003 13:27
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traktor
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Posted : Jan 24, 2003 05:36
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i think that win 2k with the service pack 2
i bether than xp
but thats is my opinion |
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Barmalei
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Posted : Jan 25, 2003 17:58
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Tegma, dude, I can tell you abouty the RAID. Using RAID-0 is best for system and HD reading and writing performance, but not so reliable, if one of the disks crashes, the whole array will be broken. Other RAIDs is not fittable for ya.
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Kaz
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Posted : Jan 25, 2003 18:11
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Well, XP would be the best choice IF you tweak it to be performance oriented. Otherwise, win2k would be a better choice. You don't need to use RAID, it'll just complicate things. You probably WON'T need to use the HDD cache, and if you will, RAID or no RAID the track will stutter.
Like LSDream said, RAID-0 is the only one you should use, as the others (RAID 1+) are mainly for keeping information secure and stuff which is very handy for servers with 4+ hard drives, but not practical for home use.
About tweaking XP for audio work, this should be of help:
http://forum.isratrance.com/viewtopic.php?topic=10633&forum=2&1 http://www.myspace.com/Hooloovoo222 |
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Barmalei
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Posted : Jan 26, 2003 11:04
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RAID-1 is used for mirroring, for example you want to backup your audio data in real time. This means, everything changed to one of the disks in the array will be immediately mirrored to the others. Most of tuned RAID-1 arrays will not slow the performance, but you need to know how to tune it.
If I'd got new computer I would put 4 disks in two RAID arrays.
System disks (smaller ones) in RAID-0 - so the system and virtual memory will be much faster - about 150% performance increase. And my data to put on RAID-1 disks.
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Mike A
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Posted : Jan 26, 2003 18:39
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Dunno about RAID, but installing 2000 instead of XP will be stupid.
Go for XP, and install the Service Pack (available from windows update).
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ird
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Posted : Jan 28, 2003 01:50
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Tegma -- congrats on the AMD purchase Almost exactly the same stuff as I've bought a week ago: Athlon XP 2400+, ASUS A7V333 mobo, 512 RAM. Runs twice as many plugins as a friend's P4 2.4, so performance-wise it's just perfect for music production and heavy sound processing..
Can I ask you what heatsink you're using? What idle/loaded temperatures are you getting?
As to the OS question, I vote for WinXP.
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Plan_B
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Posted : Jan 28, 2003 16:08
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Gongrats! May u create mind-twistin-godawful Noise!!!!!!!!
RESPECT!!
btw- XP
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Tegma
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Posted : Jan 28, 2003 16:42
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