need feedback on this conceptual idea
Posted: Sat Feb 21, 2004 1:20 pm
just thinking out loud about the future of my recording ....more HD power on one maschine seems like the logical next step, however, there is a considerable downside, the bottleneck of PCIbus serving 1.streaming samples 2.hostseqeucner recording/playback, and 3.plugins.
In other words, before a 2.x Ghz CPU comes to its limits, the PCI bus is probably overloaded much quicker, particulary if one would want to record tracks at higher rates 24bit/96khz....
Thinking about a solution.... more maschines, interconnected via 1Gbit networkcards.... also provides considerble expansion options in the furture....also allows to use cheaper HD stacks with RAID 0 or RAID5 hardwarecontroller solutions....
In the first step.... get second maschine, twisted cable, 1Gbit Card in both maschines, RAID Controller plus 4* 250Gig HD's in the second maschine.... access HD's via network, use Nuendo because of enhanced network support, and have all streaming jobs done by maschine 2.....
Doin a little math... Sample at 44.1khz / 16 Bit - means 705'600 Bits/sec need to be transfered...
A 1 GBit/s-Net has a theoretical 1'073'741'824 /sec Data Transfer.
That means theoretically I could playback 1521 Tracks at 44.1Khz/16bit, SIMULTANEOUSLY!
The 4 RAID HD's should have no problem with that.
PCI Bus with Datatransferrate of 133MBytes/s....comes to 1064Mbit/sec, just a tiny little more than that GBit net.
In comparison.... Firewire 400bit comes only up to half of what 1Gbit net can provide.
Of course all the above are theoretoical values, and from 1521 tracks you probably end up with 1200, LOL which sounds good enough to me.....
What do you think?
In other words, before a 2.x Ghz CPU comes to its limits, the PCI bus is probably overloaded much quicker, particulary if one would want to record tracks at higher rates 24bit/96khz....
Thinking about a solution.... more maschines, interconnected via 1Gbit networkcards.... also provides considerble expansion options in the furture....also allows to use cheaper HD stacks with RAID 0 or RAID5 hardwarecontroller solutions....
In the first step.... get second maschine, twisted cable, 1Gbit Card in both maschines, RAID Controller plus 4* 250Gig HD's in the second maschine.... access HD's via network, use Nuendo because of enhanced network support, and have all streaming jobs done by maschine 2.....
Doin a little math... Sample at 44.1khz / 16 Bit - means 705'600 Bits/sec need to be transfered...
A 1 GBit/s-Net has a theoretical 1'073'741'824 /sec Data Transfer.
That means theoretically I could playback 1521 Tracks at 44.1Khz/16bit, SIMULTANEOUSLY!
The 4 RAID HD's should have no problem with that.
PCI Bus with Datatransferrate of 133MBytes/s....comes to 1064Mbit/sec, just a tiny little more than that GBit net.
In comparison.... Firewire 400bit comes only up to half of what 1Gbit net can provide.
Of course all the above are theoretoical values, and from 1521 tracks you probably end up with 1200, LOL which sounds good enough to me.....
What do you think?