Does anybody have an opinion on what the optimum hard-drive cluster size would be for recording to a single VDAT (8 tracks) at 16 bits? What about 32 bits?
Would the optimum hard-drive cluster size be different when recording to four VDATs (32 tracks)?
If I knew how many bytes VDAT wrote for each track in one pass, I would think that would represent the ideal cluster size. But I could not find that information in the manual nor with a search here at planetZ.
Cluster Size for VDAT
Well, VDAT uses preallocated, linear, uncompressed audio, so it shouldn't be to hard to find out. Get some detailed specs on .WAV fileformat. I mean, you can choose whatever samplerate and bitrate you prefere.
32 bit 44.1KHz, that would be like 176,4 KBytes, per track a second.
I don't really know if cluster-size would influence performance that much at all. You might notice it on storage capacity though.
Recording to 8 tracks on a single VDAT at once would take 16 Bytes per sample, but I think you have to take into account the transferrate of the harddrive it self to determin the optimal cluster-size.
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32 bit 44.1KHz, that would be like 176,4 KBytes, per track a second.
I don't really know if cluster-size would influence performance that much at all. You might notice it on storage capacity though.
Recording to 8 tracks on a single VDAT at once would take 16 Bytes per sample, but I think you have to take into account the transferrate of the harddrive it self to determin the optimal cluster-size.
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