[Ti] OT: Speaking of self-powered external FW drives for audio...

[b]

Timothy Steven Clarke paused, thought it over, and spoke thusly:

>I have both IBM Ultrastar and Western Digital Caviar drives in my FW 
>enclosures--are those currently the best of the multimedia drives, 
>or is there something else available now or soon that comes highly 
>recommended?
>
>Thx,
>
>TC

Those sound great to me. I suppose if i had a desktop 
Macintosh,though, that i would go for Ultra Wide SCSI, whichever 
'flavor' of the SCSI type is the widest, fastest out there. The 
revolutions per second are way out compared to FireWire drives as far 
as i know.

I'm on a 667, which i love, but it isn't wide enough or fast enough 
[bus and CPU] to really do music/video internally [not with 
real-time, or on-the-fly, switching of processing parameters, 
anyway]. It can be done, but the newer Macs are obviously the way to 
go, and i believe fast SCSI [UW] is the ultimate in real-time 
multimedia production. Assuming we stay in Apple's domain. With 
changes in the OS, a new SPARC-type workstation isn't necessary any 
more for rendering, either, as far as i know.

~flipper