I noticed that with the Raptors, I can get approximately 40 more voices of polyphony using GS 160 2.54.
But GS3 Orchestra didn't seem to benfit any different than my 200GB HDD that I bought for Cubase content.
So I was wondering since my Raptors will be the oldest hardware in my DAW's, w/ the exception of the Scope cards
, would a HDD w/ lower access times be a better choice, or would the overall highest throuput be optimal?Surely the footprint of samples made in the RAM from Giga are extremely low latency, but would 8msec.'s access time w/ a high throuput be better if I am streaming audio from several VSTi's and possibly Cubase ?
With that in mind I am still a Western Digital kind of guy, because they sent me 8 HDD's that have never failed me, and that's why I am nervous. This means sooner or later they will probably go out on me, and since I am in a mission critical enviroment, it might be a good time to remove these and since they still work, keep 'em as Hot spares for my RAID cages.
http://www.storagereview.com/1000.sr
If there are any HDD gurus here, does this look to be a viable solution for what I have described?
Many Thanks, and Be Festive !!