Old 01-27-2021, 11:17 AM   #1
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i just bought a new laptop and i have a couple of questions.

1. who makes a good 4tb nvme 3x4 drive for recording to at 96k and keeping sessions on? i would imagine r/w speeds are important but there's probably caches, etc to consider. had been looking at the hp ex950 but those are only 2tb.

2. i've heard all sorts of things about ram. go far speed, go for latency...my board accepts up to 3200 ddr4 but some people say buy all the way down to 2666 and get your CL down, or run 20cl ram at 3200. which suits reaper best? what sticks do you recommend for such use?

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Old 01-27-2021, 11:57 AM   #2
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Considering the single channel of 96kHz 24 bit audio takes a whopping 288 kilobytes per second the answer is: anyone, anyone makes good disk for this
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Old 01-27-2021, 12:37 PM   #3
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Considering the single channel of 96kHz 24 bit audio takes a whopping 288 kilobytes per second the answer is: anyone, anyone makes good disk for this
not sure i follow, but maybe i do? any insight on the ram thing?
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Old 02-10-2021, 12:33 PM   #4
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any insight on the ram thing?




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Old 02-11-2021, 12:06 PM   #5
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i just bought a new laptop and i have a couple of questions.
Is this new laptop a major brand like HP, Dell, etc. that already had a lot of their software installed on it?

A lot of that stuff they install runs in the background and that can affect performance.

There's a number of threads here and stuff on You Tube about optimizing computers for audio recording/editing.

You might start there, optimize your system, then use it and see what you get before you start adding or upgrading hardware.
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Old 02-11-2021, 12:38 PM   #6
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Heh, well there's this:
https://www.newegg.com/sabrent-rocke...0D9-001Y-00013

If you have a laptop with only one M.2 slot and you really need 3500 MB/s speeds and you really need 4TB and it's worth spending $700 to do that, then there it is!

That would let you work with over 12,152 simultaneous tracks of 24/96 audio FYI.

I'd probably look to a different setup (eg. desktop build) if I had to shuttle that kind of data around and try not to rely on an expensive M.2 drive solution.

Otherwise I could snipe up a used i7 Macbook Pro on Ebay and throw a 1 or 2TB SATA SSD into it for less than the cost of that 4TB M.2 drive. (Assuming 600 MB/s covers the I/O needs. So, you'd be restricted to just over 1000 simultaneous tracks of 24/96 audio.)

FYI, take a careful look at exactly which version of M.2 drive your machine supports! There are at least 12 variants at this time! Some of them even have the same sockets! Note that there are pci card SSDs like this that actually use a SATA controller. The M.2 devices are about the furthest thing from a standardized item I've ever seen.
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