| Re: Attempt/Issues reviving PARIS system...Many questions...Help please! [message #109031 is a reply to message #109030] |
Fri, 01 January 2016 23:25   |
senseart
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Registered: January 2016
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Well Happy New Year to you Kim! This certainly gets the party started!
Thank you for taking the time to read and weigh in on my situation! It is very much appreciated!!
If SCSI is not needed...I'm on my way. Didn't know if I was having to invest more time and money in sorting that out or updating it. After I upgraded the system years ago I never had a chance to push it or I would have discovered this earlier.
My son just retired a few year old system with SATA, a dual monitor video card, a decent processor/memory combo, and a couple standard PCI slots! If I needed a SCSI interface I wouldn't have enough slots to house the 2 EDS cards.
What about SSD's with Paris?
I was just handed a couple 120GBs...I guess okay for system drive, but what about recording?
Better with a standard SATA HD for my 2nd drive?
I read a lot on this forum and it seems SCSI is listed often so I wasn't sure about not using it. I would max out with 2 EDS cards, most likely the 24 tracks, and won't be hammering on it continuously. If I can get the track count, don't care if I use up an inexpensive drive or two over time. Am I thinking correctly?
As for Mike's drivers and v3.0...you believe I can install the old v3.0 with Pace far enough without a key to replace the .exe file and have it run? Is that what you're saying?
I have a bunch of utilities and midi programs I was running on 98 but could work around that if I go forward to Win 7 or 8, so this sounds like I'm headed in the right direction. I invested a lot of time and money in this system originally, never got a lot of use out of it, it's sat for many years...I think I have to simply let go, mourn the loss, and move on!
So relating back to my original post...
2 EDS cards and 1 MEC okay? Sync issues?
What is the most important spec/feature to have in a newer system?
What is the one thing I should definitely avoid?
I'm just trying to get a handle on how you can drop this into a newer system and have it simply perform over the painstaking process and optimization of older systems. Is it the operating system, bus speeds, more memory, better processors, or all of the above?
Since it was designed and written in the past, I'm thinking if I swing too far the other way I can get into trouble with compatibility issues and/or I may have to dumb-down a newer system for better performance. Read something about hyper-threading so maybe there is some DE-optimization that needs to take place...Thoughts?
As I mentioned, finances are tight and I want to feel good about the direction and have some certainty in the outcome...time invested is important too...I needed it running yesterday (of course)!
Kim, thank you so much for the response! Perhaps others will weigh in on additional aspects of my post, like a quick fix for my "antiquated" system...more likely they will echo your point and what I already know.
Best regards!
Gary
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