Post your views and questions about the Akai MPC2500
By drumnbassguy Sat May 13, 2006 7:13 pm
On the Toshiba MK4026GAX hard drive I see it has a transfer rate of 100 megs per second and the MPC has 128 megs....SO it would be loaded in 1.28 seconds?? This can't be true...
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By selecta jo Sat May 13, 2006 7:49 pm
don“t confuse bit and byte... :wink:

peace jo

By _Stilo_ Sun May 14, 2006 8:37 am
He's not confusing Bits and Bytes.

Theoretical maximum data transfer rate is 100 MB/sec (UDMA100). But hard drives usually reach an actual transfer rate of only 20-30 MB/sec. Don't know about the Toshiba drive, but it will be somewhere around that, especially when you have to load several small files.



Stilo.
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By Mr modnaR Sun May 14, 2006 8:52 am
yes that's the sustained maximum transfer rate of the data bus, not a real life value. given that the hard drive has to find each file before transferring it, you won't get near that, even stilo's suggestion is a little optimistic. the only way you'd gt close to the 100MB/s rate would be with a solid state drive.
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By Lampdog Sun May 14, 2006 9:47 am
drumnbassguy wrote:SO it would be loaded in 1.28 seconds?? This can't be true...


No it's not true.
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By selecta jo Sun May 14, 2006 10:13 am
ah, that was my fault: confused MB and Mbit... :oops:

peace jo

By drumnbassguy Sun May 14, 2006 2:44 pm
so roughly 128 megs of samples loading into the MPC from the hard drive...how long would I have to wait????
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By Mr modnaR Sun May 14, 2006 2:47 pm
not long, depends who you ordered it from...




























j/k mate, seriously, it's not that much of an issue, and unless you're a looper, then you ain't gonna be loading up 128MB of samples everytime!
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By Lampdog Sun May 14, 2006 3:18 pm
Mr modnaR wrote:you ain't gonna be loading up 128MB of samples everytime!


Beat me too it.