Recording Using a Hard-disk Drive.

Recording using a hard-disk drive or SD card is currently the most effective and popular form of digital audio recording. Hard-disk recording allows for instantaneous access to the audio data anywhere on the disk. The amount of recording time is determined by the size of the drive or card. Because audio data stored on a drive is bussed through the computer’s CPU, processing the audio data is fast and easy. Audio files can be duplicated, preserving the original master recording.
Hard-disk recording requires lots of unused disk space. Since audio data is continuous, large amounts of free or contiguous blocks of memory is necessary. Therefore, using an external drive is critical when recording non-stop audio. A dedicated drive, separate from the drive that contains the computer’s operating system and audio application, is highly recommended. In this way, when reformatting or de-fragmenting the recording drive (a standard maintenance procedure), the computer’s operating system and audio application will not need to be reloaded.

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