Die Hard AA Fan NOT HAPPY!

What is going on!
I have put up with delays in command execution and playback time when zooming in on multi-tracks.
I have purchased 10k rpm drives which have made some small headway but what do I find now????
Let me recap.
We had a client hire the studio for a few days but insisted on using Sony Vegas to track.
After picking ourselves up off the floor from rolling around in laughter - sure we hired him the studio and away he went.
Well I was pretty impressed with his use of Vegas and the speed in which he flew it.
But hey at the end of the day this is toy stuff compared to AA right?
Anyway he finished his tracking was impressed with the studio and the sound, paid his money and booked more time.
We also laid down a couple of accoustic tracks in AA and were able to transfer them to Vegas using AATranslator - excellent says the client.
Cut a long story short we started mixing a couple of new projects and were getting really annoyed with the lag time when zoomed in.
I'm talking about 6 to 8 seconds just to start playing the tracks which are zoomed in and about halfway into the song!
It must be the rig says my partner!
No it can't says I!
Well we did some tests and here are the facts:-
Loaded up the clients Vegas session
756 wav files, 41 tracks and 1960 clips plus plugins
Zoomed in further than we would in AA in a similar place in the session and Vegas started instantly!
Ok then we converted the exact same session into Reaper using AATranslator
Same result - instant response!
Ok then using AA we dare not load up the same number of files etc
But we did load 24 wavs, 16 tracks and 88 clips
Result on the same PC ?
Response times of 6 to 8 seconds in AA
Note: None of the DAWS put any pressure on the CPU and we even turned off all plugins, cleaned out temp folders etc etc.
We kept the plugins on in the other DAWs
NOT HAPPY JAN!
Edit: Just converted the AA session to Vegas - how embarrasing - zoom right in and it starts instantly!

I just posted this over at AudioMasters
Stop the presses!
Some deeper investigation and a discussion today with AlanofOz and I think that I now have a very good grasp of whats going on -
and all is not as it seems!
So why is Reaper for example so much faster I wondered surely they don't have some magic pixie thing that allows them to get the data off the drive faster than AA?
It seems to me that once AA reaches a certain point when zooming in AA no longer uses the pk file as a reference but accesses the drive and the audio directly hence the apparent poor performance.
Sounds bad but its actually not. Strange I know but bear with me.
What is Reaper etal doing?
It appears to me that they are not accessing the drive and the audio directly they continue to refer to the (re)peak file.
This has to be a much better idea right?
Wrong!
Why do a lot of us use AA?
One of the reasons we use it because of its accuracy right down to the sample level - how do they get that accuracy when zoomed in (and why are you zooming in? Because you need accuracy!) by accessing the drive and audio directly.
Okay what about the Reaper (and others) method ? well AlanofOz has done some work in this area and he (and I'll let him jump in although he is in the middle of moving house) maintains that the same accuracy is nowhere near there at the sample level or similar.
Speed vs Accuracy - I'll take accuracy but I can easily get the speed with a 10k raptor drive but nothing will give me the accuracy if its not in the app.
Audio can physically stream off a drive only so fast be it Reaper, Vegas or AA etc
So endeth the lesson.
I'm happy to be corrected (but unlikely to be convinced otherwise) :-D
as the Subject says - Die Hard Fan Now Happy!

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Most of what I copied and pasted from the Terms & Conditions is located on the first page, in the first paragraph.

IMac 21.5 hard drive fan increases speed after HDD Replacement

The hard drive on my iMac 21.5 failed two months out of warranty, so I decided to replace it myself. I replaced the drive with a duplicate of what was already in the iMac, which is a Seagate 500GB Barracuda 7200. The replacement and restore went well, however, now the hard drive fan slowly increases speed during operation, until I assume it reaches maximum RPMs. The increase in fan speed happens regardless of how busy the unit is. This is not particularly a problem, but the noise at maximum RPMs is annoying and I assume the life of the fan will be shortened. I ran the Apple Hardware Test and received the error "4SNS/1/40000000:TH00-9.000" which I've seen from another post that this may or may not indicate a problem with the thermal sender unit on the HDD. During installation I was careful to verify the proper orientation of the thermal sensor cable, so doubtful that is the problem. Is there a way to definitively determine whether the thermal sensor is bad on the HDD, or do I need some type of Apple-specific firmware installed on the HDD?

Beginning in late 2009 Apple began using HD's that had the heat sensor integrated into it, if you are absolutely positive your replacement drive has an integrated sensor in it then your problem might be solved by doing a SMC reset. If you haven't done one before here are the instructions:
SMC RESET
• Shut down the computer.
• Unplug the computer's power cord and all peripherals.
• Press and hold the power button for 5 seconds.
• Release the power button.
• Attach the computers power cable.
• Press the power button to turn on the computer.
PRAM RESET
• Shut down the computer.
• Locate the following keys on the keyboard: Command, Option, P, and R. You will need to hold these keys down simultaneously in step 4.
• Turn on the computer.
• Press and hold the Command-Option-P-R keys. You must press this key combination before the gray screen appears.
Hold the keys down until the computer restarts and you hear the startup sound for the second time.
Release the keys.

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