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D24—Owner’s Manual
Certified Disk Drives
The following disk drives have been performance tested by Yamaha and are certified for
use with the D24. Other disk drives may work just as well, although performance can-
not be guaranteed. The D24’s SCSI interface supports Narrow SCSI-2 (FAST-20).
See the Yamaha Professional Audio Web site at the address below for an up-to-date list
of certified disk drives.
<http://www.yamaha.co.jp/product/proaudio/homeenglish/>
Available Recording Time
The available recording time depends on the capacity of the selected work disk and the
selected recording resolution and sampling rate. A 1 GB hard disk drive, for example,
offers 188 track minutes of 16-bit, 44.1 kHz recording.
The following table lists the approximate 16-bit, 44.1 kHz recording time offered by a
variety of disk capacities. To calculate the approximate recording time for other disk
capacities, see “Calculating the approximate Recording Time” on page 7, or simply
multiply the time available for a 1 GB disk by the disk capacity. A 6 GB disk, for exam-
ple, can store approximately 1,128 track minutes, or 30 hours of 16-bit, 44.1 kHz digital
audio (e.g., 188 × 6 = 1,128).
Drive Type Manufacturer Model Capacity
Hard disk drive
IBM DDRS-34560U 4.5 GB
Quantum XP34300 4.3 GB
Seagate
ST32430N 2.4 GB
ST34573N 4.5 GB
ST39140N 9.1 GB
Western Digital WDE4550-003 4.3 GB
Removable media drive Iomega Jaz 1 GB
Disk Capacity
Recording Time (16-bit, 44.1 kHz)
Track minutes
(mono) 2 tracks 4 tracks 8 tracks
1 GB 188 min 94 min 47 min 23 min
2 GB 377 min 188 min 94 min 47 min
4.5 GB 850 min 425 min 212 min 106 min
6.5 GB 1,228 min 614 min 307 min 153 min
9.1 GB1
1. The D24’s filing system supports up to 8.4 GB of disk space per disk drive. Larger
capacity disk drives can be used, but only the first 8.4 GB can be accessed by the D24.
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