Scsi Hard Drives Gotta Be Better, Right? Options

[ichinumba9]

I am wondering why it seems like no one is using scsi hard drives anymore. To me it seems they are better and when I was looking into the higher end Pro tools systems they ONLY use scsi. So, just wondering if anybody knows the ins and outs of scsi compared to IDE and Firewire. Oh yeah, I'm not talking about price, just performance. Thanks.

[PhilTrueman]

Greetings

I can only say that at one time SCSI was the thing to use for audio and video. Now, it's different, ATA/IDE etc have caught up - a good 7,200rpm ATA disk can be as good if not better than SCSI.
If fact - I had a problem with Logic Platinum when I first started using the software - I couldn't record audio without it being garbled along with a 'beep' in the background - thanks to the brilliant guys at 'SoundTech' - it turned out to be my old SCSI disk - not liked by Logic at all. When I switched recording to the ATA disks - all the problems went away. Not used the SCSI since.
Protools still use SCSI I think besause they have just evolved with SCSI. When I used to use ProToolsLE I recorded to the SCSI disk quite happily. Does anyone use ATA with ProTools?
Just my 2p worth.

Cheers
Phil

[Synthetic]

yep... I agree... SCSI used to be the king but now other technology has caught up... also consider what it costs to add a ultra-wide SCSI card and drive to a mac compared to just getting a nice 7200rpm ATA/IDE as Phil noted and the other drives seem cheaper.

I have a Glyph Project X firewire drive I use and have no probs getting 30-32 tracks of 24 bit audio out of it with PTLE. Now if you wanted to go beyond 30+ tracks... a SCSI raid might be a better bet (thus why most big PT systems have SCSI drives).