Scope Heaven

[dawman]

Spent an entire day and evening reconfiguring all of my folders so I don't need to look under names of developers for any thing that is duplicitive already.
JUst installed 3 x new SSDs with the most extreme Random Reads available w/o having to bypass the SATA III 6GB COntroller " limitation " by using the expensive PCI-e SSD RAID death devices.
I have the newer Seagate Momentus 750GB SATA II 3GB Hybrid SSD/HDD for apps+OS, and it screams for OS loading and even Scope benefits. It takes about a dozen or so reboots before the smart caching comes into play and then retrieves that information much faster.
THen 3 x SSDs that have 90k IOPS in Random Reads, and Kontakt loads are a snap, then the amount of polyphony and layering is obsene.
Everything is ITB @ 48k even Solaris, the controller is a POS Privia that is really an excellent 88 note choice with a great cross between true weighted and semi for synth work/B2003. It's resolution using MIDI not USB is the highest I have used to date. I can easily play 8 different velocity levels.

I could exclaim my happiness to my better half and she would say " wow, that's great " not even really listening, as I could then say your new perfume could gag a maggot and get the same response, so she isn;t really listening.
So I must share my XITEment with my bros here.

Life is great with Scope and Solaris and the new gear.
I am building my new DAW pieces at a time by using my current i7 980X which never goes above 10% on 6 Cores, so next is the RAM, and then the rest will be built locally and then I can swap parts.
The SSDs IMHO are the best upgrade that I have seen in ages, other than x64 RAM sizes.

CHEERS

[garyb]

good on you!

[petal]

Sounds like a sweet pc you've got there!

I seem to recall quite a few of these stories of new pc's from you, how often do you upgrade your main music pc?

[dawman]

I've made 3 myself, but watched GaryB make the first 3 from 2006 to 2008.
Always had a back up DAW back then for live work and used an analog switcher, but never once a crash, so I then truend all SATA drives into hot spares where they 2-3 seconds to re engage. Much faster than RAID, and RAID has a rebuild period where in the background it rebuilds while youre suppose to continue working, etc.
I can pretty much guarantee during a RAID rebuild our audio needs are unusable and crackle like bowl of Rice Krispies.
Each build seems to last me longer, but I never wiat for them to die. I let my kid have them and keep the drives for hot sapres.
Oddly enough I can use SATA II 3GB Raptors as hot spares to the SSDs on the same PC since I have 4 x Icy Docks to house the new 2.5" storage devices. You simply unsnap the conversion cage and pull it out.

[siriusbliss]

Good deal. Almost makes me want to upgrade sooner than I planned

Greg

[dawman]

I wanted a laptop like the ADK 9000 you have, but I will still need a rack so I figured why not use the new graphics and build a 1U.
If it fails, there's alway ebay and I can say some famous star like Rod Stewart used it....etc.etc.

[siriusbliss]

I wanted a laptop like the ADK 9000 you have, but I will still need a rack so I figured why not use the new graphics and build a 1U.
If it fails, there's alway ebay and I can say some famous star like Rod Stewart used it....etc.etc.

Yeah, the ADK's been a real workhorse, but with the future of possible Scope /OSX/Thunderbolt (most-likely porting PCIe?), etc., then I might have to raid the bargain-bin at work and do an 'upgrade' (or would it be cross-grade? ).

Greg