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Hello,

Was looking out for Ram chips with more than 1gig of memory, that match up to Korgs' recommendations (184-pin DIMM, DDR PC3200 "CL3")

Well, I found this Ram stick here 2GB, 184-pin DIMM, DDR PC3200 memory module

Well?, could it be integrated in a future upgrade?, was wondering. Not cheap, perhaps, but would be nice to impliment 4 gigs in the OASYS


AnthonyB

I could be wrong, but I thought I read somewhere on the forum that the mother board did not support 4GB. So KORG couldn't even do that if they wanted to.

I could be wrong now !!!!. But I seem to remember this for some reason.

That said... I'd personally prefer streaming of samples.

Regards.
Sharp.

Sharp wrote:I could be wrong, but I thought I read somewhere on the forum that the mother board did not support 4GB. So KORG couldn't even do that if they wanted to.

I could be wrong now !!!!. But I seem to remember this for some reason.

That said... I'd personally prefer streaming of samples.

Regards.
Sharp.

Seems to be a similar thing to Windows XP (32bit) systems as well, in that 4 Gigs will only get read as 3 gigs I understand. Would be nice though!. As for streaming, well, would the 5400 RPM Hard drive cut it?, (at least i "think" it's 5400 anyway, like a normal laptop.)

Well, maybe we could use one stick (2gigs) in one slot, and some sort of "ROM" chip in the other, to retain samples when turned off


AnthonyB

As for streaming, well, would the 5400 RPM Hard drive cut it?,

I think so.
A 5400 RPM Hard drive should push out 16MB/s easily. Add to that actual RAM usage, I'd say it's very possible.

KORG could even only make the option available to external drives connected to the USB port. Just thinking out loud

Regards.
Sharp.

I wonder if they could make use of the PCI slots inside in some way too ?.
A custom card with additional ram for streaming maybe ?

Regards.
Sharp.

How about using the PCI Slots to hold effects similar to the UAD products.

How about making the Waves Mercury Bundle available w/ the pci slots. And the PCI cards having their own processing power for the plugs.

Farfetched idea I know. The Point is Korg can really do some interesting things with those PCI slots.

That is correct about the motherboard only supporting up to 2gigs.

AnthonyB wrote: Seems to be a similar thing to Windows XP (32bit) systems as well, in that 4 Gigs will only get read as 3 gigs I understand. Would be nice though!. As for streaming, well, would the 5400 RPM Hard drive cut it?, (at least i "think" it's 5400 anyway, like a normal laptop.)

Well, maybe we could use one stick (2gigs) in one slot, and some sort of "ROM" chip in the other, to retain samples when turned off.

Martin Hines posted in another thread (see link below) that he had done searches on the hardware and discovered the Hard drive was a fujitsu 4200 rpm unit. elvisjohndowson also posted it was 4200 in that same thread.

http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/ ... ght=%2Arpm

Ken

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Martin Hines posted in another thread (see link below) that he had done searches on the hardware and discovered the Hard drive was a fujitsu 4200 rpm unit. elvisjohndowson also posted it was 4200 in that same thread.

http://www.korgforums.com/forum/phpBB2/ ... ght=%2Arpm

Ken[/quote]

Here is the model and specs for the HD used in Oasys

http://193.128.183.41/HOME/v3__product.asp?pid=345&L=en

Hi,
The original hard drive is a 4200RPM unit, but I replaced mine with a faster 7200RPM 60GB hitachi drive. It's much faster loading the EXs now and its really quite simple to upgrade the hard disk, once you've cloned it's contents.

Elvis

elvisjohndowson wrote:Hi,
The original hard drive is a 4200RPM unit, but I replaced mine with a faster 7200RPM 60GB hitachi drive. It's much faster loading the EXs now and its really quite simple to upgrade the hard disk, once you've cloned it's contents.

Elvis

What about the noise? I can just hear the 4200RPM HDD through the OASYS cooling fan, are the 7200RPM drives noisier? And I'm thinkin it could also generate more heat and thus increase the cooling fan RPM?

Um, forgot to ask.
What software you used to clone the HDD? And did you clock the startup time before and after?

If you want streaming sample speed that will blow any HD out of the water, there is nothing preventing the Oasys from being upgraded to one of those new 2.5" Ram drives, however they are still quite expensive right now.

Drew FM wrote:If you want streaming sample speed that will blow any HD out of the water, there is nothing preventing the Oasys from being upgraded to one of those new 2.5" Ram drives, however they are still quite expensive right now.

Just the interface. The newer and faster SDDs are serial ATA, not supported on the Oasys Motherboard. You can still get good ones using PATA specifications, but the trend is moving faster and faster to the SATA interface
Once they become really accesible to the general public probably most or all of them will be using SATA.

In fact, Oasys motherboard supports PATA 33/66/100. PATA 133 is not supported. Fastest SDDs will be limited by the interface as they are already surpassing the 100 Mb/s barrier for some tasks.

Rgds.

sirCombatWombat wrote:Um, forgot to ask.
What software you used to clone the HDD? And did you clock the startup time before and after?

I used Acronis Disk Director. There was no perceptable noise increase. I didnt time it, but I think it's about 1.75 times faster than the 4200RPM one.