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Hi, Event Electronics has a free software program, "Echo Reporter" http://www.event1.com/ that will analyze a system and give specific information for recording w/ their hardware (PC/MAC-Layla, Gina, etc.) I'm not sure though whether the Echo Reporter works on a Mac. I believe the speed of the hard drive is relative to the number of tracks to be recorded/played at once as well as sample rate, etc. Hard drive size is another consideration as sound files can become huge. I have started using a Travan 4/8 gig tape drive with my PC to store some wav files, using Seagate's Direct Tape Access which allows access to the tape drive as if it were a hard drive. Its access is too slow to process or record, but it is handy for storage and transfer. I can store 4/8 gigs for $30+-, keeping lots of wav handy. Randy Jones ---Martin Shellard <martins@pwdu.demon.co.uk> wrote: > > >I'm looking into an HD recording setup, on a Mac-based system. My > >question is: how fast does the hard drive have to be for HD recording? > >Under 10ms? The system I'm looking at, a 300mHz G3 has an IDE drive. > >Will this cut it, or will I need to invest in a wide/fast SCSI card and a > >drive? > > > >Travis Hartnett > > You'll get a pretty low track count out of the IDE drive. You can > probably use a regular SCSI drive attached to the mac's built in SCSI, > you don't really need super-fast drives but the faster the better. Go for > less than 10ms sek time and sustained transfer of 10Mb/s or more. > > > > Martin Shellard > > _________________________________________________________ DO YOU YAHOO!? Get your free @yahoo.com address at http://mail.yahoo.com