Audacity Forum

waxcylinder wrote: This then may well be the problem - is your Raid disc an external USB or Firewire disc?

It's not an external dive. These are SATA Drives connected to the onboard raid (ICH9R) controller.

<<<293 GB.>>> We like two numbers when you describe the drive. Is this like a 750GB total drive or higher? I found on several machines that having massive hard drives in a machine slows things down very significantly. Video and some audio machines arrange RAID systems for speed rather than just raw...

stevethefiddle wrote:You mean buffering to ram, then writing as one big file?

No I mean buffering to ram and then writing a 1MB file. While writing this buffer to disk, Audacity can open a new buffer for the next chunk of data.

When Audacity is so prone to fragmentation, why isn't the recordying buffered to memory before writing to the hard drive?

Thanks for your reply. Your presumtion is right. My drive is not noteworthy fragmented. Besides that I think the effect of fragmentation is often overrated. At Stereo, 44.1 kHz and 32-bit float a project file has a size of about 28 MB which is 0.46 MB/s. A reasonably new desktop hard drive easyly re...

stevethefiddle wrote:how much is "lots"?

293 GB.

Aftrer trimming the project to the point where the stuttering starts, the project folder contains 8192 file with an overall size of 8,12 GB.
The number 8192 doesn't seem random to me. Could it be an internal limitation of the Beta?

Fred

Hi everyone, after having recorded some hours using the device "Windows DirectSound: What you hear" I noticed that the recorded file started stuttering at exctly 6:45:47.5. After a second try, the stuttering again started at 6:45:47.5 until the end of the file (overall length about 9.5 hours). Any i...