bheliker

Ok, you got me. These aren't typical mics, I'm building them from scratch and they have very special purposes. Remember that music video Radiohead made a couple years ago, with the 3d dots? Think of it like that. A very special application with very special recorders – I can't really say more right now. But they generate a LOT of data in from a lot of frequencies. Thanks!

Hi all; I'm doing some recording, with three different mics, very special and high-speed. Each uses about 60% of the throughput of USB 2.0, so whenever I put two on the same bus, quality starts dropping. The old Mac Mini (2010, with 5 USB ports on the back) has four separate internal USB busses and the five ports on the back are spread among three of these. The new one... doesn't It has three busses and one is used by Thunderbolt. Has anyone run into this before, or have any solution? I'm not stuck with Mac, but I do need it small enough to fit in my cabinet. Plan B is to buy a Shuttle PC or similar and put three PCI cards with USB ports on them. That just sounds ugly so I want to avoid it if I can. I don't have USB 3 drivers for these so that out. Anyone have a 2010 Mac Mini they want to sell? Thanks! Brett

Time machine works well, but I have had problems with corruption. These issues didn't result in any data loss but the backup had to start fresh so I lost my incrementals. No biggy. I always use CCC if I'm upgrading or swapping a HD. It works wonders. As a final failsafe I've been using rsync lately. Built in, works great, and compares two directories for changes rather than copying everything. All command-line based.

Agreed. Pretty innocuous. I also use 1.1.12 and have not upgraded to 2 yet. It plays nearly everything. Some of the recent updates have mangled the transcoding options, so don't trust their quality, but even that works better than just about any other general tool.