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Old 03-14-2006, 07:57 PM
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Default SATA drive to IDE-firewire enclosure

Hey,
I just bought on ebay an old Glyph firewire hard drive enclosure (Mproject). It holds a 40G ATA drive.
Anybody know if I can swap it for a 74G Raptor, using a SATA to ATA adapter?
Any recommendations, caveats, info on where to find such an adapter?
Could this work?

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Old 03-14-2006, 11:37 PM
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Default Re: SATA drive to IDE-firewire enclosure

That adaptor might work, but why would you want to waste a Raptor on a FireWire bus? Any new ATA drive will be plenty fast for FireWire.
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Old 03-15-2006, 05:23 AM
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Default Re: SATA drive to IDE-firewire enclosure

Well, according to what I read, the firewire 400 bus has more then enough bandwith to accomodate the faster raptor's 10000rpm spindle speed. I need to change the ide drive so why not go for the fastest around... That adapter is only 35$.
Excerpts from a mail I received from Glyphtech:

"I wonder about using such an enclosure with a WD 74G 10k rpm Raptor SATA
drive. Would there be a significant speed increase thanks to the higher spindle
speed?

-10K will get you higher track counts per drive, since digital audio tracking is indeed, seek intensive. This is using good old FireWire400.

My impression is that spindle speed is more important than bandwith.
-Very true.

I currently own a Apple IBook and am looking at the fastest combo for audio
(protools le rig). So, is external SATA (Raptor) to firewire 400 a good idea or is the firewire
400 bandwith a bottleneck?"

-FireWire400 is fine.
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