What are your specs?

[mercury_in_flames]

I run S.S 3.3 on my lap top with:

P4 2,8ghz

448 RAM (shared with grafix card)

ATI Mobility Radeon 9000 IGP (running at 64mb)

11GB local hard disk space free

56GB space free on 158 gig external hard disk

As much as I would like a 1 gig ram, that would set me back 200 US, so I am sticking to what I've got atm.

I have a cd writer/dvd player combo drive in the lap top, as well as a USB 2 connected dvd writer (sony DRU-800A). I think it has faster read speeds so I always use that for importing cd's, (cd write speeds are 24X max on the lap tops cd drive and 48X on the external).

For some reason, when importing a cd, the start of it goes fast, and as some have said, it hangs at the end, on my lap top cd drive, BUT on my dvd writer, it just starts off reading fine, then you hear it reading at full speed, and it just finishes importing without any problems.

Edited November 23, 2005 by GregTheRotter

[Richard]

I run SS 3.3 on my Dell laptop with the following specs:

Processor: Intel Centrino 2.0Ghz

Ram: 1GB

Disk Free Space: 29GB

NEC ND-6500A Dual Layer DVD-RW

Win XP SP2

I don't really have any performance issues on this machine. Transfer speeds are ok for me, but transfers are quicker to the NH1 / DH10P than to the NH900.

I usually import CD's as step one to the desired bitrate and then transfer as-is aftwerwards. MP3's I manually convert using the "Convert Format" option and then transfer as is as a second step.

The base install of SS was 2.1 which came with my NH900 and has been progressively upgraded via internet installers on Sony's site to 2.2, 2.3, 3.0, 3.1, 3.2 & 3.3.

I have never had to uninstall / re-install.

[mercury_in_flames]

Oh yeh, im also on win xp sp2. I also store all my atrac files for 'as is' transfering.

My OMG folder currently consists of 1411 files/7.24gb, while

'my music' folder which contains my mp3s, wma's and files of other formats has 740 files/3.97gb.

[KJ_Palmer]

Compaq laptop, Window XP home edition

1.6GHz Celeron

512MB Ram

80GB hard drive - 40 GB free

Mostly used for TV, word processing, some graphics/scanning, internet, Sonicstage (quite heavily) and other music-related applications.

Have SS3.3 installed. No probelms with it (yet) - seems reliable and stable enough.

[KrazyIvan]

AMD Athlon XP 1800+ (Self built system)

512 MB DDR 400 (Yeah it's overkill for my processor/motherboard but I am going to upgrade)

Lite-On Dual Layer DVD burner

MSI 52X CD Burner

M-Audio 2496 sound card

NVIDIA GeForce FX 5200 (128 meg) I don't do much gaming anymore so it works for me.

80 GB accross two hard drives (20 gig- my main boot drive and 60 gig for data storage/temp video editing space - about 45 gigs free)

XP Pro SP2

I use my rig mainly for audio editing/recording and I have just recently got into video editing. It is slow for the video editing but audio is fine. I have Sonic Stage 3.2 and it works fine. I don't plan to upgrade unless something happens that forces me to. I use Simple Burner mainly for MD transfers I want to do in a hurry. That does not happen too often. SS is used more to title discs than anything else.

Edited November 23, 2005 by KrazyIvan

[atrain]

i run it on an AMD 3200XP

1.7 gig ram

2x 80gig HDD

ati [saphire] 9600xt

xp pro

liteon 52x32x52

lg supermulti 8x dvd blah

all bought in bits & built by me

&

benq joybook 6000n

512ram

external 24x cdrw/dvd drive

i've got older versions installed on two old 'puters but i don't use them for transfers anymore.

[mercury_in_flames]

damn and double damn dude. Here I am wishing for a 100 pound 1 gig ram for my lap top and u got ur comp pimped out to the max. lol

[atrain]

i might be amazingly good looking greg but i am a nerd too. just wait till kuris sniffs out this thread, his rig puts mine to mucho shame.

[mercury_in_flames]

ha, Ive seen too many processors, graphics cards and such come and go to even think about saving up for a comp thats the shiiiieet, haha. Maybe when im older and comps are running at 20 gig ram with same power graphics and all for the price of a celeron comp haha.

[Eryn Vorn]

My low cost configuration:

Toshiba laptop, Window XP SP1

0.4GHz Pentium II, 192MB Ram

8GB hard drive - 2 GB free ;-)

It has been a pain to run SS2.x on SP1. Upgrade to SS3.0 was OK.

Have SS3.3 installed this weekend from Sony website. Thanks MDCF for the link.

No problems with it! It seems to be much faster than 3.0 for encoding and transfering MP3 (hour long radio shows (strangely called Podcast)) onto my HiMD units.

[Christopher]

just wait till kuris sniffs out this thread, his rig puts mine to mucho shame.

I have a custom-built Socket 754 Athlon 64 --

- A64 3700+ @ 2.4ghz, can overclock 500mhz on air (XP-120 heatsink, 120mm panaflo fan)

- Maxtor Diamondmax 10 Plus 250gb SATA w/ 16mb cache (170ish gigs free I think)

- Firewire connection to a Sony DRX-510UL DVD Writer

- Windows XP Professional 64-bit

- 1 gig 2-2-2-5 DDR PC3200

- Radeon X850XT

I'll do some tests this afternoon with Sonicstage 3.3 and see what the speeds are, as it's been a while since I last took an official measure.

Edited November 24, 2005 by kurisu

[mercury_in_flames]

Just did a test, when importing the cd 'demon days' to WAV, it took 1 minute 40 seconds to import. It then took 2 minutes 56 seconds to convert the wav files to atrac 256.

The cd is 15 tracks (50 mins 43 seconds).

Edited November 30, 2005 by GregTheRotter