Q for Jim Roseberry and others - Cores v RAID
Was just reading the Ryzen thread and the following question popped into my head. For recording audio with several tracks recording and/or playing back at higher resolutions (say 24/96 for sake of example), and, for fun, let's include a bunch of audio mangling (your choice, compression, pitch shifting, modulation, whatever), what do you think would be more useful?
More cores (i.e., off-loading the processing to multiple cores)
RAID striping (i.e., speeding up the writing of LOTS of
1. Clock-speed
2. Cores
Your disk speed will determine the number of simultaneous tracks you can run.
If you're working at 44.1k or 48k, a conventional HD can sustain over 100 solid/contiguous tracks.
IOW, It's probably not much of a limitation. 😉
If you're working at 192k, you'll want the extra speed of SSD.
As a point of reference:
Conventional HD sustains ~200MB/Sec
SATA SSD sustains ~540MB/Sec
M.2 Ultra SSD sustains ~3500MB/Se