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on: November 12, 2015, 12:33:10 pm
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Prerequisites
When you want to apply all in the meant well-fashion, you will need a 2.5" hot-swap removable hard drive bay (people with the XXHighEnd PC as povided by Phasure will have that). This needs to connect to internal SATA, preferably SATA3.
Notice that you really don't need to build in the bay and that it can lay on top of the PC or anywhere else; If you can access it easily to remove the HDD from it (or insert it) then it is fine.
Please notice : When you arranged for some external enclosure that connects via eSata (which often is a connection at the back of the PC) it is up to you whether you can boot from that (connection). But, you can try in advance (put in a 2.5" OS disk and see whether you can make it boot from it).
For some, those who have some space behind their pc, a 2.5" SATA Removable Hard Drive Bay for a PC Expansion slot might do the trick, f.i.: http://www.startech.com/HDD/Mobile-Racks/25in-SATA-Removable-Hard-Drive-Bay-for-PC-Expansion-Slot~S25SLOTRStanley Good idea Stanley, this will be an easier place to put it in my PC as it has the expansion slots in the upper side  Juan |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: Disk with Multi-RAM-boot available for purchase
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on: November 11, 2015, 06:56:12 pm
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Juan, I too have a CPU fan (as the only moving part left). I could make it water cooled, but at this moment I feel it is not necessary.
Edit : This fan is a most constantly running fan (does not rev up or down either or otherwise "very" long term) and that is crucial (for the better).
Edit2 : I must admit that I did not mention the fan in the quote I now see you gave. Could still good to strive for (so I better don't change the text) but anyway I have one fan in.
Thank you ...
Peter
My fan runs at constant and as low speed as possible and, well, if you have still one inside and your sound is as good as you say I won't be in a hurry to change it  Juan |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / Chatter and forum related stuff / Re: Disk with Multi-RAM-boot available for purchase
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on: November 11, 2015, 06:27:05 pm
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Hi Peter, ...please notice the purpose : not having any device in the PC other than the processor, 16GB of memory and a network connection facility (and a removable HDD bay).
No electrical noise anywhere, apart from what the processor and the motherboard implies. No heavy spiking (of draw) involved, like a HDD/SDD would imply it (when it is used to supply data). Lower power draw all together.
Coincidentally, after a long time, the next weekend I had decided to start to take out all the devices I still have in the Audio PC in order to build a LAN. After the tests I did, unfortunately I can not yet do without the CPU fan because the temperature rises to around 60ºC. I imagine that, although there is still a fan inside, the improvement in SQ loading the OS and XXHighEnd to the memory will be worthwhile. Besides, of course, that it will allow to receive the latest OS with the appropriate settings. So, please count on me and put me on the list. Regards, Juan |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Ramdisk playback drive space allocation
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on: October 14, 2015, 04:02:20 pm
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I currently run 5g in both ramdisk files as recommended by Peter in order to playback some 24/96 and 24/192 music files. Juan runs this setup: XXHE and XXdata running from Ramdisk (A:) 1Gb/ Playback Drive: Ramdisk (B:) 6Gb Is 1G enough space for XXhighend ram(A), in order to playback 24/96 and 24/192 files? Any problems Juan. Does this make a difference to sound quality? Robert Hi Robert, I´ve been testing the size of the ramdisks playing 24/96 and 24/192 files. With a 2Gb (A) ramdisk (xxdata and xxhighend 2.02) and a 6Gb (B) ramdisk (playback) playing a 4.53Gb album (wav 24/192) there was no problem at all. So it seems that there is no need the (A) ramdisk has enough space for the album, while the (B) ramdisk has enough space for it. If the different sizes for the ramdisks make a difference to SQ, I have not noticed. Best regards, Juan |
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Ultimate Audio Playback / XXHighEnd Support / Re: Ramdisk playback drive space allocation
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on: October 07, 2015, 04:17:39 pm
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I currently run 5g in both ramdisk files as recommended by Peter in order to playback some 24/96 and 24/192 music files. Juan runs this setup: XXHE and XXdata running from Ramdisk (A:) 1Gb/ Playback Drive: Ramdisk (B:) 6Gb Is 1G enough space for XXhighend ram(A), in order to playback 24/96 and 24/192 files? Any problems Juan. Does this make a difference to sound quality? Robert Hi Robert, I'm out of home until the next week and I can't test if I find some problem with 24/96 and 24/192 files. I'm using a ramdisk created by Alain and I have had usually around 8Gb shared with different sizes in between the A/B disks, eg 4/4, 2/4 or 1/6 like I have now. As Alain says I always thought that the B ramdisk should be bigger than the A ramdisk. With the present configuration I charged more than 2Gb of WAV files, I mean 4 or 5 cds or even more without problem. Now I can't remember when I played 24 /96 or 24/192 files but as soon as I return home I'll do it and let you know. Anyway, if Peter says that both ramdisk have in fact the size of the little one (if I understood Peter well) he is probably right, although it doesn't seem to be my own experience. Regards, Juan |
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