SATA or Firewire 800 for higher track count?
I can't seem to find any solid documentation on this any more. I have a new Mac Pro that easily enables me to put in a dedicated SATA audio drive(probably a WD Black 7200RPM) however years ago I was having disk usage errors and track count limitations using SATA and was getting much better performance with FW800 drives. I'd taken the issue to the DUC and was informed by Digi Tech back then (this is likely 4 years ago) that SATA had lower track count limitations than FW 800 however I can't find any solid documentation on either side any longer. I just simply want to know if I'm better recording to my high performance digi approved FW800 drives or installing a dedicated SATA drive for recording.
In case this information helps its a Mac Pro 8 Core Westmere with 16GB RAM, dedicated separate internal system & sample drives. A typical session will be around 85 tracks with 2-4 plugins each however some sessions get up to around 125 tracks. Always 48k/24bit
Thanks so much for your help
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