Need Advice On Esata External Drives For Audio Options

[miserlou]

Hello all, I need some advice on eSATA external drives for audio. I use Digital Performer 6 for my main DAW. I have 4 WD Firewire 800 drives that are connected to my 8-Core Mac Pro by the tower's firewire ports. I've been told that I need an eSATA PCI card and that I can connect my WD hard drives individually to the card via the eSATA connector ports that's provided on the drives...and this will give me faster results with my audio.

Does anyone have experience with external eSATA connections and what cards and drives do you recommend?

Thanks!!
Rod

[lepetitmartien]

Hello
First you need a PCI-e card (PCI express), not just PCI.

I've still to try the thing, but as I'm in PCI-x… I've got to buy the card in the USA to have a decent price, so it'll come… One day ^^ The question of the enclosure needs to be cared of too, I'd like a not-RAID multiple drives eSATA enclosure, and I've still to find one.

Now some basics:

- one eSATA port goes to one hard drive only.
- beware that a lot of cards are RAID only, so be careful when choosing one if it's not your choice.

Now I leave the mic to those already eSATAfied. I'm curious about their input too.