scsi hard drive for 9600

[keysmia]

Hi, I need a ext.hard drive for audio for my 9600 w/ a max power g3 card and 256 of ram. Do I need an scsi acc. card or is the internal buss fast enough for the 001. If so What is qualified for this purpose. to get the best performance which scsi drive is good for this system. Thanks.

[E. D. Cooper]

If you want an external SCSI drive for the 9600, you'll need an accelerator card. The 9600's external SCSI bus is only SCSI-1, which has a maximum transfer rate of about 5 meg/second. I doubt you'll get more than 10 to 12 tracks before choking down.

The internal SCSI bus on the 9600 is SCSI-2. That runs about 10 meg/ second. You may want to consider installing an internal drive.

Accelerator cards. It appears that the only card Digidesign likes is the Atto.

I just installed an 9.1 gig Seagate Barracuda on the internal SCSI bus of my 9600. This is in addition to the factory installed 4 gig internal. Installation was not a big problem. (If you're comfortable with that sort of thing.) The drive works fine with Pro Tools LE.