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 data by striping to multiple drives)
Sure, BOTH is the best answer, but I was just toying with the idea for kicks and giggles.