SCSI kicks FW400's butt. FW800 is a different story. But if you want
192 tracks of 44.1 kHz or 96 tracks of 96 kHz (etc.), you're going to
need six SCSI drives and there ain't much way around that.

That 4-banger SCSI HotSwap Glyph rack was a standard four years ago and
whatever equivalent they have now is obviously even better. The last
thing you want to get in a session is a darn -9073 error with musicians
in the live room and the clock ticking.

Just remember that outside of the "legions of users" getting by fine
with the FW and ATA drives are the orchestral, soundtrack, etc. users
that often use a ton of tracks. Three words: Dialogue, Music, and
Effects. The consoles have three master faders.

Cheers,
Trevor de Clercq

Buster Mudd wrote:
adaM wrote:

hi, i'm about to order a dual g5 and i know you need a 2nd hard drive
to record the audio files for pro tools. will just getting a 2nd
internal hard drive that comes with g5 be alright (the stock one:

160GB

Serial ATA - 7200rpm), or are you supposed to get one of those hard
drives that connect via firewire, audiowire, etc? sorry if this is a
stupid question, i'm not the biggest hardware guru if you haven't
already noticed! also, will i need to buy partition software for

this

or can that be done through formating?




7200rpm Serial ATA will be fine. The biggest advantage of an external
Firewire drive over an internal ATA drive is that the external drive is
external! It becomes your portable media, so you can track or overdub
or mix at another studio & not have to drag your whole G5 everywhere.

There was a time when DigiDesign was recommending 10,000 rpm drives,
but they might have lightened up on their requirements. I've been using
7200rpm drives exclusively for the past seven years without a problem.

Just wondering, is anyone still extolling the superiority of SCSI or
Ultra-SCSI for audio use, or has that arguement been beaten into
submission by the legions of users successfully working w/ FireWire or
ATA drives 24/7?