Ram = faster recording?

[rolando14]

I have been working with a sony vaio pcv rs310, i have an upgraded hard drive to 350Gigs.... and the original memory of ram is 256mb... i am wondering if i order a 1gig ram (512 x 2), will it enable my comp to process signals faster while working with usb interface? increase speed of my computer at all?

all responses are appreciated

[garww]

In and out that uses buffers and hard disk can see improvement depending how you set things-up, but generally the ram acts as a system buffer. Since the birth of GUI, RAM has been the single most effective system improver.

Before MicroSoft, the general plan was to move your work area and data set into RAM disk's of your own configuration. There are ways to do much of this today, but I have not tried any of it other that using a little memory card (512Mb SD) under Vista.

Ports are the slowest thing on the computer, next to the floppy drive.

[frshtrx]

it's got a bit to do with what applications you are running...because they have different architectures. With Sony products, formerly Sonic Foundry, like Acid or Vegas, seem to utilize board RAM more independantly of the drive performance; whereas Sonar seems very reliant on disc scratching - more round trips on the hard drive - which would be more effected by the read/write cache size on the hard disc itself, rather than the board's RAM.
blah, blah, blah...
what application are you using and what is the problem that is making you think you need more RAM?
RAM so cheap these days anyways, may as well fully populate the board just for kicks!

any ways - I can only record a song as fast as I can play it! : )

: )

[rolando14]

well i really am a tightwad about what processes/applications are running at any moment in time... i use cubase for recording....

lol, well i'll be honest with you... basically for 37$, free shipping i was like why not i'll take the extra ram, i doubt it could hurt to have more ram? unless i'm wrong...


it started by improving the ram on my dell inspiron Laptop and now it runs like a top.... i am always improving performance,



slowly lol

[spaceatl]

Originally Posted by rolando14

I have been working with a sony vaio pcv rs310, i have an upgraded hard drive to 350Gigs.... and the original memory of ram is 256mb... i am wondering if i order a 1gig ram (512 x 2), will it enable my comp to process signals faster while working with usb interface? increase speed of my computer at all?

all responses are appreciated

More ram is always a good thing...If you want to improve disk performance and have dedicated your disk to audio files, consider formatting with a cluster size larger than the default of 4K if this is NTFS...Since audio files tend to be quite large, a small cluster size tends to cause a bit more thrashing reading and writting data...If you have means to backup and restore you audio drive you can try different sizes to maximize performance and cluster space efficiency...

[frshtrx]

shipping.$0
all the ram your board can handle $37.
recording applications that run fast & bug free. (don't make me say it)

awesome. there are no problems, just expenses.

[rolando14]

so i went from 256 to 1 gig of ram, the recording quality is slightly better but i am mostly impressed by my computer's ability to now operate multiple applications at one time.

it runs SOOOO much faster when solely operating the internet.

glad i did it, i'd suggest doing it to anyone!

[jimminy cricket]

how come i hardly ever see the specs for the read/write cache for hard drives ?

what is a good spec for that ?

[garww]

Originally Posted by jimminy cricket

how come i hardly ever see the specs for the read/write cache for hard drives ?

what is a good spec for that ?

You would have to hang out in the computer world. The spec really is interdependent on it's transfer rate, which is a part of the bus and spindle speed.

My last two drives were 120 and 250Mb and neither were purchased for performance. I disabled the ULTRA SCSI in my ZPro. I'm not doing anything like tracking airline seating availability, or anything that requires power. Since I already have the 10,000rpm boot drive, I would just have to add to the array with additional high performance drives.

I tend to disable OS control of the drives performance. In fact, Windows has been unable to defrag since 98SE.

So, the on-board cache has grown as the drives have progressed - from a couple kb on my 8" Shugart to who knows what with the Tb drives (32Mb ?)- part of that has to do with the anticipated block sizes we commonly see today.

[jimminy cricket]

Originally Posted by garww

You would have to hang out in the computer world. The spec really is interdependent on it's transfer rate, which is a part of the bus and spindle speed.

My last two drives were 120 and 250Mb and neither were purchased for performance. I disabled the ULTRA SCSI in my ZPro. I'm not doing anything like tracking airline seating availability, or anything that requires power. Since I already have the 10,000rpm boot drive, I would just have to add to the array with additional high performance drives.

I tend to disable OS control of the drives performance. In fact, Windows has been unable to defrag since 98SE.

So, the on-board cache has grown as the drives have progressed - from a couple kb on my 8" Shugart to who knows what with the Tb drives (32Mb ?)- part of that has to do with the anticipated block sizes we commonly see today.

that might possibly help me and be informative if i had an idea of what you were saying in english