Recommend PowerLog PC Spec's

Recommending a minimum specification for PowerLog systems is difficult because the requirements differ from station to station depending on how many logs they are recording, what sample rate and what compression algorithms they are using. The following specification is based on a PowerLog Capture system recording four stereo logs, keeping them linear for 7 days, then 128Kbit WMA for 3 weeks and finally WMA 64Kbit for a final 2 weeks.

Disk Space Needed

7 days linear = 24GB

4 weeks at 128kbits/sec WMA = 36GB

2 weeks at 64kbits/sec WMA = 9GB

Total = 69GB

Recommended PC Spec

4U Rack 400W (4) Case
Pentium4 2.8GHz CPU + Fan
P4 ATX with NIC Mainboard
2 x 256MB DDR266 RAM
Standard Videocard
Floppy Drive
52x CDROM Drive
2 x 200GB Serial HDD
Hardware Mirror RAIDcard
Optical Mouse
Standard Keyboard
15" CRT Monitor
MS Win 2000 Pro Software
PCI1750 (For IRN/Remote Starts) I/Ocard
Delta 10/10 4in 4out Soundcard

Once again, the monitor is of little importance but the rest of the specification is important for a good quality PowerLog Capture system. Note that the Delta 10/10 provides eight mono or four stereo balanced analogue audio inputs and the PCI1750 provides up to 16 hardware I/O's. Other than that, it is a fairly standard Windows 2000 Pro PC in a rack chassis.

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