On Tue, 2003-03-18 at 18:48, Scott Thomason wrote: > On Tue, 18 Mar 2003 17:10:51 -0500 > Chris <grooveman@xxxxxxxxxxx> wrote: > > > I am looking into building a new machine, and I want to do some > > home-studio recording with it. I was hoping that some of you could > > lend some of your expert advice. > > > > It sounds like SCSI is pretty-much a must in these situations, true? > > So in other words, nobody, myself included, thinks SCSI is necessary for this type of workstation nowadays. > ---scott I don't. I'm completely 1394 based in both Windows and Linux for my audio drives. It's way cheaper than SCSI, it more quiet than EIDE (in a case and located in the closet at the end of a cable like SCSI), I Can add more storage in a minute like SCSI, and it puts the drive power supply outside the PC thus reducing load on the main box. I certainly think EIDE drives are basically fast enough today for smaller systems, and with 1394 drive kits, you can take an EIDE drive and make it 1394 in a matter of minutes should you ever want to. 1394 is the lowest raw-throughput performance of all 3, but overall I find it works very well for me. (FYI - I have not done enough Linux based recording to tell people to ONLY go this way, but I Can say that about 1394 under Windows.) Mark
