dedicated drive for audio

[karambos]

Hi all,

I want to buy a dedicated drive for audio and need some advice.

which is quicker Firewire or UltraWide SCSI?

Apparently, there are drives which can read and write at the same time (for a Mac). Can anyone confirm this? If yes, how useful is it?

I'm grateful for any advice or experience on this topic.

thanks

karambos

 

[webstop]

Don't know about Mac, but in PC any 7200 prm, 8 mb buffer, IDE ATA 100 drive is more than sufficient for recording.
I run three of those under Nuendo, and in 28 channel project hard drive indicator seldom shows any high activity at all.

 

[jake-owa]

I'll second that webstop. I believe the SCSI would be faster than firewire but the common Western Digital 80gig 7200rpm will be fine for almost any home studio. I've never even pushed my 100gig and I've had a crapload of tracks going...more than even sounded good. They are getting into the $1 a gig range these days on sale...amazing.

 

[Slackmaster2K]

SCSI would certainly be faster than firewire, but even SCSI isn't required. As stated above, 7200RPM IDE is more than adequate.

Slackmaster 2000

 

[zer0sig]

let me add a "me too" in saying that IDE will be perfectly doable for this. i've benchmarked something like 40 tracks on my gimpsy 266 with an older, slack-cache IBM 7200rpm drive (i'm sure the real world performance would be a touch less, but i'm also pretty sure i could stream 10 tracks with no pain, and my machine doesn't have the balls most do). the main advantages to SCSI (time to geek out here, boys and girls!) are on fileservers, when multiple requests are being sent to multiple areas on a drive and/or multiple drives-the bandwidth and intelligent drive controller make a huge difference here (for example, SCSI setups can actually reorder file requests so that they are done FASTER than in requested order, for example, for the inside of a platter to the outside, making head latency much less of an issue). okay, enough babble-if you want the best, SCSI is cool, but you'd be lucky to be able to tell the difference with what you're doing, let alone NEED that extra performance.