Will any hard drive support the maximum number of channels at the highest bit depth and sampling rates (24-bit/192 kHz)?
Certainly. The throughput on 5400 rpm and higher hard drives supports the maximum record rates of the devices. The benefit of higher rpm drives is during transfer. There is a few percent increase in transfer speed stepping from one drive speed to the next. What about CompactFlash with high sampling rates? While we allow writing 192 kHz sample rate files with CompactFlash, some slower CF cards may have throughput problems and have media errors. The user will be notified with a warning tone in headphones and a front-panel indication that a write error has occurred. Our on-board CF speed tester is a good tool to determine if writing to 192 kHz is possible with the installed CF card. How do you handle the 2 GB file size limit that is often associated with .wav files? Will the file system break a recording seamlessly at a given file size and start a new one without any operator intervention? There are couple of things here. First, a WAV file on its own isn’t technically limited to 2 GB. Som
