your datastream would be 768 kB/sec per channel. For 40 channels, that would be 30 MB/sec. If you use 8 GB of RAM for buffer, that's still 4.5 minutes.
Really cool, thanks for the specific info and for showing what these type of calculations are.
i read that comparing 16 bit to 24 bit, in terms of the amount of info was equivalent to comparing the hight of a phone book to a 2 story building. not seeing myself as a scientific person i accepted that explanation as all that i needed to know the difference, which is silly. what you guys are showing is not only accurate, it is relevant in terms of the hardware i need and the amount of latency that is involved.
i realized i didn't know what bit depth was so i looked up an article that looked good.
https://www.head-fi.org/threads/24bit-vs-16bit-the-myth-exploded.415361/
i skimmed through it and i do not have the interest to really think about this and read it and follow the links. someone one suggested i get a tech person if i don't understand or don't want to learn, i am still going to read a bit about this but i am going to need someone, but right away. i am in the middle of remodeling my house and learning Mixbus (a DAW to use instead of ProTools and Logic X, not instead of, but to migrate away from. i will still use them when it is more convenient. i might use VST plugins from a Windows OS, that is what prompted me to take a look at NAS to begin with)
ECC doesn't "only notify of errors", it also corrects them. If it can't correct them, it halts your system.
thanks for this correction, i was really hoping this was the case. i was reading somewhere in this forum something that i took to mean this wasn't the case, they we only discussing the shutting down aspect of ECC memory and saying how not worth ECC memory was for the price, or something like that. i have read enough of your posts to hold what you say in high regard. obviously i need to read about it, or hire someone to be in charge of it, for now i will take your word about that. this is a forum, after all, not a library or a search engine. thanks for responding :)