A current SSD drive will even have a writing speed of around 500 MB/s. If you really have a very fast flash drive, you should be sure that you test its long-term performance in advance of any serious recording.Ī hard disk drive can write about 50-160 MB/sec, depending on its rotation speed (typically smaller portable hard drives don't run the 7200 rpm that higher-performance internal drives do) and other factors. So using flash drives for serious 32-channel recording is not something I'd recommend. Yes, there are faster flash USB drives that can write 10MB per second and more, so it could be possible to keep up with the stream, but the problem here is that they'll realize that speed ON AVERAGE, so you can't be sure that there isn't a temporary hiccup where the writing speed will drop below 4.5 MB/s, creating glitches.
![audacity skips while recording audacity skips while recording](https://www.fonelab.com/images/data-retriever/audacity-main-interface.jpg)
Since the audio stream has since moved on, audio gets lost.That's what creates the glitches. Now if the D元2 can't write the data to the drive at a fast enough rate, it will probably just drop chunks of the wave file while the drive isn't ready and only continue writing when the drive is ready again. One of the more common USB 2.0 sticks, the Sandisk Cruzer 64 GB, can only write 3,25 MB per second. When recording 32 channels, you create a data stream of around 4.6-5 MB per second. That's why I recommended a hard drive (HDD) or an SSD drive - because their internal writing speed is far superior to the garden-variety thumb drive. I'm not uninformed - I wasn't stating that USB is too slow but that the typical USB thumb drive is too slow - and that's not because of the speed of USB, but of its internal speed of writing to flash storage. OK, a bit less adrenaline and aggression, please.