Many years and several bottles of Jägermeister ago I produced a few songs and ran the live soundstage for a couple of local bands. At the time digital recording with computers was in its infant stages. Logic Audio could still be run on the PC and Mark of the Unicorn (MOTU) was putting out better hardware than Pro Tools. It was a very exciting time for digital music since we were pioneering new techniques and battling latency at every turn. This period in my life played a large role in my career as a storage product tester since back then money was scarce and dual processor motherboards, rack mount equipment and even the balanced cables were expensive as hell. Making the most out of what was available turned into an art and one of the best ways to get the most out of the recording equipment was savaging for high speed 15K RPM SCSI drives. Looking back, it really amazes me what all we were able to do with a few hundred dollars of software and a few computers pieced together from server scraps.