TDM 6.4 With EIDE SATA?

[sonicapg]

Hello

This is kinda noobie question but I search the net and couldnt find me an answer.I know PT 5.X TDM needs scsi drives for audio ,does PT 6.4 TDM also needs scsi only for audio? how about eide and SATA?

[Wireline]

I'm running one TDM system (6.2.2) to a firewire drive...so I believe it all depends on what your actual machine is setup to handle. Haven't tried SATA, as I don't believe SATA was a popular (or even available?) platform when 6 was first released.

Disclaimer - all speculative...All I know as fact is that Firewire 400 and 800 work on Mac G4s and are rock solid.

[John_Toolbox]

SCSI was only a requirement for the disk i/o(pro tools iii) systems. The d24 and mix systems will run a session from any drive, they are just recommended to use SCSI because that was the fastest and most reliable drive at the time. But things have changed a lot in the last 15 years. Depending on your computer, you should be fine with a dedicated IDE drive for audio. I haven't personally tried SATA, but I've heard it works, though there may be some SATA PCI cards that are better than others...