Can I upgrade the D8Bs processor and/or hard drive for increased performance and capabilities?
The Mackie Realtime OS was designed to work at 100% efficiency while using less than 50% of the Pentium 166MHz processor’s capabilities. This means that upgrading the processor will not necessarily make the D8B work any “faster” or “better”. Most of the session and effect parameter files that are stored on the D8B’s internal hard drive require a very small amount of memory. The 4.2GB hard drive is well equipped to handle as many sessions and effect parameters as a user can generate. We recommend backing up your files to either a floppy disk library or an external hard drive/computer through the D8B’s networking protocol.
