Thread: Hard Drive too slow?

Hi, I have quick question. Last weekend as I worked on some test / pre-production work for upcoming recordings of one of my bands and finally ended at + - 80 tracks that were played simultaneously in some places. My HD started throttling and pulled the data is no longer with the playback. I now have an IBM 7200RPM drive on an IDE bus hang. Would buying a SATA PCI card with a SATA disk with a reasonably large cache buffer (32 or 64MB) to save me in this situation or is it hopeless?

The system is also a Pentium IV 2800Mhz, 2GB Ram.

Including 80 audio tracks or MIDI instruments? I have once no idea what the bandwidth of a 7200 RPM HD does, but your computer seems to have the older side. Certainly it can not be there?

Helps If the I / O buffer value slightly above this level? During the mix latency by definition less relevant.

80 audio tracks, 24bit, 48000Hz. I had the buffers in Reaper already pretty screwed up, something was wrong, but not much.