SCSI Drive

[Dan Valcich]

Richard,

What scsi drive do you recommend?

Dan Valcich

[SourceChild]

What scsi drive do you recommend?

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.