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5 Connecting Hard Disk DrivesBefore connecting a hard disk drive, read through this chapter to familiarize yourself with
SCSI and how a SCSI daisy chain should be setup.
What type of hard disk?
If you don’t already have a hard disk or are thinking of buying a larger one, see the supplied
card for a listing of recommended disk drives.
Hard disk size
The following table shows approximate available recording times for various sizes of hard
disk. Available recording times are shown for all of the CBX-D5’s sampling frequencies,
and as you can see, with a higher sampling frequency – less time is available. This is
because using a high sampling frequency produces much more digital data, which means
a bigger sound file. See “Sampling frequency (REC FREQ)” on page20 for more details
about selecting a sampling frequency.
Although it is doubtful that you will ever buy a hard disk smaller than 40MB for use with
the CBX-D5, the values below 40MB will be useful for checking the remaining record
time that is available on a hard disk that already contains some sound files.
Hard disk / Max.
Sound File Size
Stereo Recording (minutes) Mono Recording (minutes)
22.05
kHz 32
kHz 44.1
kHz 48
kHz 22.05
kHz 32
kHz 44.1
kHz 48
kHz
2000MB (2GB) 380 260 190 174 760 760 380 348
1000MB (1GB) 190 130 95 87 380 380 190 174
660MB 124 85 62 57 248 248 124 114
330MB 62 42 31 28 124 124 62 56
200MB 40 25 20 17 80 50 40 34
100MB 20 13 10 8 40 26 20 16
40MB 8 5 4 3.30 16 10 8 7
20MB 4 3 2 1.42 8 6 4 3.24
10MB 2 1.18 1 51
secs 4 2.36 2 1.42
5MB 1 38
secs 30
secs 26
secs 2 1.16 1 52
secs
1MB 12
secs 7 secs 6 secs 5 secs 24
secs 24
secs 12
secs 10
secs