10,000 RPM WD Raptor SATA Drives

[Jonathan Starr]

Has anyone had experience with the Western Digital Raptor 10,000RPM SATA internal drives?

I've been hitting the limit of Firewire throughput, and I'm looking for a single internal drive that is fast enough to handle 30 tracks at 96k.

The Raptors only come up to 74gigs, so I would use my firewire drives and spare partitions on my large system drive for projects that are not currently in work.

Thanks,

Jonathan Starr

[ticktock]

Me too.

I saw something around here that said SATA were frowned upon for some compatibility reason. Maybe it was my M-Audio equipment though.

And Pro Tools doesn't support RAIDs.

I guess that leaves SCSI as the only high speed option?

[pezguy]

I do not believe the problem lies in the throughput of firewire. I am using two 7200RPM SATA drives and I am able to get the full trackcount of 32 tracks @ 24/96. I would look at bus speed and CPU before looking at the firewire pipe.

[Jonathan Starr]

To answer my own query; I got one and the Raptor 10,000RPM SATA is fast and works great in my G5 Dual 2.7 for audio files for PTHD.