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

[fictionmusic]

I use Lacie sata2 drives (well they were originally called sata 2 when they came out, now they are called sata 3gig, but in any event, they use a different connector than sata1 drives.)

I also have a pci-x system and lacie has cards that support up to three sata2 drives per pci-x card. I use the lacie quadra drives (firewire, usb, sata2) and I have 6 working all the time. Never a problem. I also use firewire 800 with another pci-x card (that supports three firewire drives). I also have the sata 1 set up as a raid array (via ANOTHER pci-x card that supports two sata1 drives). I prefer the sata2 drives, but truthfully they all work pretty well. All Lacie too.