Re: [microsound] Powerbook hard drive speed

[Niklas Werner <bergtroll@xxxxxx>]

On Friday 26 March 2004 12:26, Arie van Schutterhoef wrote:
> >Getting close to buying a 15" Powerbook but have concerns about hard
> >drive speed. Could any list members who use these machines as audio
> >workstations offer advice on whether the stock 4200 rpm drive is
> >suitable or whether the build-to-order 5400 rpm drive is necessary?
>
> -5400 is not really fast either, but 4200 is pretty slow,
>  maybe for typing letters it's adequate, but for realtime
>  applications and specially when performing, the fastest
>  the better...
basically right, but rpms are not the sole factor for a drive's speed 
(filesystem-performance being the main bottle-neck on OSX). I don't have 
any problems with the 4200 one. Gives me a reading-throughput of 24MB/sec 
and is beautifully silent!

and 24MB/sec is pretty OK for multitrack-audio given that really big 
projects need to be put on an external(=faster=louder) drive anyways.

Cheers

Niklas

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