Originally Posted by Dan Valcich
Hey Dan,
This is the best overall answer to your question.
Don't use a SCSI drive.
There are close to a dozen threads on this board referring to SSD disks, specifically the Mtron SSD disk.
Six months ago they were expensive and a 32Gb was about $3k US.
Last month they went down and a 64Gb was about $2k US.
This month a 128Gb is about $3k and the price is still dropping.
Don't use a SCSI. The SSD (Solid State Disk) is a device that has a SATA interface but is made of the same memory used in RAM. This means it is much faster.
The price of a SCSI card and SCSI disk is comparable to an SSD.
However, a SCSI can only run 1/3 as well in performance. With the SSD you can run 14 layers with no loss using the DV codec or 7 layers of HD using the Apple Intermediate Codec.
If you're in the US, there's a company called dvnation (about an hour away from me in San Antonio in fact) which is very easy to deal with. The guy who runs is is cool and I speak with him on the phone all the time. He's small but always has tons of disks in stock.
TODD SCRUTCHFIELD 
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