> Essentially a show stopper for professional audio work (...). Trying to completely escape disk IO in those uses is very limiting. Could you expand on that?

> Essentially a show stopper for professional audio work (...). Trying to completely escape disk IO in those uses is very limiting. Could you expand on that? I mean, an hour of mono uncompressed 192 kHz/24bit audio is almost exactly 2 GB. Compared to professional audio equipment, 128 GB of RAM isn't very expensive ( < $2000), and that would let you keep 64 one-hour maximum-def tracks in memory. Why do you need to read from the disk with any frequency?