Anyone using SATA hdd?

[ten]

Ive got 7 sata drives in my main DAW and 2 in my internet machine.

The daw has 5 Western Digital Raptors, (4x 73gigs, 1x 36 gigs) and 2x Maxtor maxline III 300gig drives.

The 36gig raptor is the main OS boot drive with winxp32 and winxp64 in dual boot config. Nothing else will ever go on this drive apart from the OS's.

The other 4 raptors are raided in 2 by 2 config raid 0. One array is for audio programs, projects, audio scratch, vstis, vsties and the other array is for samples, romplers and libraries.

The two 300gig maxtor drives are for backup and misc storage. Routinely every week I have ghost automatically take drive images of all of the 5 raptor drives onto these maxtors for backup purposes.

I used to have a nice set of Maxtor atlas II u320 scsi drives in a couple of raid arrays which was VERY nice for audio. I decided to sell them and goto SATA as SAS is just around the corner (SAS is like a SATA version of SCSI.) The SATA setup I have atm is very nice, but SCSI was noticabley faster in single and raid config, so I plan on moving to SAS later down the line.

But, SATA drives are great, very cheap, easy to raid together. Deffo worth getting a couple for audio and raiding them

ten