ProTools vs. Ardour. Why spend the money 794
On 3 Apr 2006 10:35:04 -0700, Mike Rivers
Yea I'm old enough alright :)
Possibly, depending. I've always been on the other side of the glbutt (piano) as far as tape that size is concerned. I was running a Tascam with 1 inch tape back in the 70's-80's and into the 90's. I never made a backup because the storage medium is fairly decent compared to a time plant like a hard disk which *WILL FAIL* at some point. Ampex 456 excepted :) However, every commercial project that I remember playing had safety copies made and the copies sent off site.
That is always an option, but over the years I have found that I have always spent more time using that option. Now I have a backup strategy set up and it is more or less transparent and requires little or no care and feeding. I just had a Western Digital 200gb disk fail on me last week and restoring was about 30 minutes or less and I was right back where I started from, less a couple of hours of work that didn't get backed up yet.
Most disk drives fail because of electronics failures, due mostly to heat. Sometimes you can predict a failure, but IMHO and experience, drives just die when they feel like it.
mista twista So why, as audio professionals who value reliability and robustness over just about anything but really bad sound, put ourselves in a position of using a storage medium...
Exactly and that is why *I* never copied my analog tapes when I was using that medium.
No question about it. Even with a R2R tape flying around the room during a rewind can usually be saved if you are careful. I've had more DAT tapes go dead on me than I count and there is usually no way of recovering them.
No, I make sure to buy them tight though so they won't fall down if the
Could be. I have to look into it more when I have the time.
Sadly, that seems to be the general tone of Linux users in news groups. To be sure, there are many very helpful Linux users but from what I see they are far outnumbered by the crazies who attempt to shoehorn Linux into every application.
Exactly and that is where Linux fails the desktop test. Modifying the system with either hardware or software is a problem. From what I understand if the software comes with your version of Linux it is easy to install, but if not you have a long road ahead. As far as hardware is concerned, Windows supports far more hardware for a desktop system than Linux does. With Linux you need a *geek in a box* to help you. With Windows you can more or less ask anyone on the street for advice.
You can call me grandpa too :) I'm over the hill at 40 'something'.
On 1 Apr 2006 20:58:30 GMT, Unruh Then you really have no right to comment on the thread now do you? Key word S E R V E R..... Did you even bother to read...
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