Firewire Throughput

mchimes · Post by **mchimes** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:35 am

I need a remote recording medium . . . I was considering getting a Masterlink, but then I'm obviously limited to 2 tracks.

Now that the iMac G5s are down to $1200 or so, I am considering getting one of these as a remote "recorder" to use with my 828 mkII. The problem is it only has one internal drive. If I bought an external firewire drive (for the audio data), would recording through the FW bus and printing to a HD on the same bus create throughput problems. The most I would do would be 16 tracks at once. Most guys do this with a Powerbook, but it seems silly with the horsepower to price ratio with the iMac G5 (and though it's bigger than a laptop, its very portable.)

Thoughts?

Thanks,
Mike

mortvillefugitive · Post by **mortvillefugitive** » Wed Jan 04, 2006 11:47 am

I have worked with people who have done this successfully with a Powerbook, so I can't imagine it being an issue. However, the hard drive in your iMac will be a 7200 RPM drive, so it would be plenty fast enough to record on. I know it's not cool to record on your internal drive, but when you're just using this for field recording, why not?