Intel Turbo Memory?

Considering upgrading my DAW with a new laptop and SHS6XL.

Is Intel Turbo Memory Hard Drive Cache a good add-on if I am going to park new audio files on an external hard drive?

Is this a good set-up (if I do all the tweaks)?

Lenovo Thinkpad T61 laptop 14.1" (with the following included; on sale for $1484), Intel Core Duo 2.2 GHz processor T7500 (800MHz, 4MBL2), Intel Graphics GMA X3100 GM965, Windows XP Pro, 3 GB PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz SODIMM Memory (2 DIMM), 7200 RPM 100GB hard drive, 8X DVD recorder, 6 cell battery

Glyph 050Q 500 GB external hard drive

Audio Technica AT4040 mikes

Already own: Edirol FA66 firewire sound card

Do audio recording and will be starting MIDI.

Thanks!! Been a lurker on the forums for a while now.

ORIGINAL: keyboarder22

Considering upgrading my DAW with a new laptop and SHS6XL.

Is Intel Turbo Memory Hard Drive Cache a good add-on if I am going to park new audio files on an external hard drive?

Is this a good set-up (if I do all the tweaks)?

Lenovo Thinkpad T61 laptop 14.1" (with the following included; on sale for $1484), Intel Core Duo 2.2 GHz processor T7500 (800MHz, 4MBL2), Intel Graphics GMA X3100 GM965, Windows XP Pro, 3 GB PC2-5300 DDR2 SDRAM 667MHz SODIMM Memory (2 DIMM), 7200 RPM 100GB hard drive, 8X DVD recorder, 6 cell battery

Glyph 050Q 500 GB external hard drive

Audio Technica AT4040 mikes

Already own: Edirol FA66 firewire sound card

Do audio recording and will be starting MIDI.

Thanks!! Been a lurker on the forums for a while now.

Not for audio work. If you were doing some type of application that used a lot of memory and was not time based like music it's a cool work around when you can't just open the machine and install more ram. But again, it's only Vista and Viata is still not a good idea for a music computer either.

In most cases a music computer doesn't run out of memory unless you have too little to start with and you have more then enough.

ORIGINAL: keyboarder22

Thanks guys. The Lenovo was on sale through today and is a NO GO per above.

Found ADK website per above and will be contacting them. A Kentucky Fried DAW sounds tasty: is 4 MegagRAMs of fat an appropriate amount to make a good recording?

If you mean "good" as in quality only the sound card (converters) control that. You only need that kind of RAM if you use a lot of software synths. Amount of RAM has nothing to do with the quality of your recordings only the amount of synths you can use. If you record only audio all that extra RAM will do nothing for you. In fact, on XP anything over 2 gig will do nothing for you.

ORIGINAL: keyboarder22
Thanks guys. The Lenovo was on sale through today and is a NO GO per above.

Found ADK website per above and will be contacting them. A Kentucky Fried DAW sounds tasty: is 4 MegagRAMs of fat an appropriate amount to make a good recording?

I own and love my ADK laptop.

Corey

I am no computer expert, so Josh was speaking a language from a country I don't normally visit. However, it stimulated me to do some research and I ran across some info sites on computers that maybe helpful to others who share my ignorance:


http://computer.howstuffworks.com/computer-memory.htm

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DDR2_SDRAM

On another note, one of my fav sayings:
"Good judgment comes from experience...and most of that comes from bad judgment."

I can state the case for a built for DAW system and perhaps for "Native TI Chipset" for firewire from a bit of personal experience.....

I got an Edirol FA66 firewire card and hooked it up to a new laptop after following some "optimizing" recs from this link:

http://www.audioforums.com/windows-xp-optimization.php

These were the specs:
HP Notebook, Windows XP Home, AMD Turion 64 Dual-Core 1.6GHz, 2MB DDR2 Ram 2DIMM,
120GB (5400RPM) SATA, 512KB+512KB L2 Cache

Installed SHS4 and started to record audio at 48KHz using WDM...sounded great! (got pops and clicks at 44.1KHz...why?) Tried MIDI...at least got a good piano sound (but hadn't figured out how to load the other sounds successfully yet). Was able to hear some of the sample content but others wouldn't play at all (???). None of the tutorial files would play and then....the sound card disappeared from MIDI options!

Loaded the drivers for the FA-66 to another laptop and chose Edirol in Windows Sounds...worked fine, so I know it's not the card or the FW connector.

In Device Mgr on the HP, 1394 IEEE shows up as "working properly." After "troubleshoot" it said the same. On the firewire properties tab, I selected "update drivers" and after searching it said "no better drivers found." I tried to disable, then enable the firewire...nada.

I tried to reinstall the Edirol drivers but when I replugged the firewire cable into the 4-pin port no "new hardware found" icon came up. I don't have another firewire device to try.

Ergo, I think the drivers for the firewire are corrupted or some such. I plan to replace the HP with a made-for-DAW laptop and just use the HP for personal stuff, but anyone have a way to get the firewire working again?

Should I start a new thread on this?

Thanks for all your input. You've all been a big help!

Barry W.