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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.

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.

<font size=-1>[ This Message was edited by: voidar on 2004-02-13 21:15 ]</font>