Well, even though there may be little advantage to either EIDE or SCSI in most system configurations, there are very important specifications to examine in terms of the drives themselves, and in cases where the format DOES make a difference, it is good to have those facts and a clear understanding of them. Besides, we don't want to offer conclusions without backing them up or it would be just more opinion and nothing else. This may be about to rock some people's boats and it should have something to stand on. In the following pages we offer a fair sample of the information gleaned during the past few weeks and over the past several years of looking at this issue. The information is formatted in a way that, hopefully, will provide the reader with a strong overview of all aspects of the issue and any conclusions.
Information is power.
A Question of Drives The heart of any successful DAW, be it a PC, Mac, Amiga or whatever, is the storage media. In this case, the hard disk drive. No matter how sophisticated the software or how clean the sound card, it boils down to the data stored on the disk. This isn't to say that Windows is a better platform than BeOS, Linux or a number of other alternative operating systems. However, it's just a practical fact that it's the most popular and thus the most widely supported.