I'm upgrading the DAW's storage system in a home studio.
I was thinking to reuse the existing WD740 raptor, and to add a 500GB Seagate 7200.12 into an eSata enclosure (or maybe a WD RE3, I'm not decided yet).
Being 10K the raptor would be the main work drive, and the Seagate would store the system, apps & VST plugins, sound banks and projects, on seperate partitions.
For the enclosure I was leaning towards the Vantec NST-400MX-SR:
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The Vantec, like most external eSata enclosure, has only one eSata port, and does JBOD through port multiplication.
We do record multiple 192kHz/24bits tracks at once and use many different, huge sound banks.
My question is : Could the Raptor and Seagate possibly saturate a single 3Gb/s eSata link?
The link is being shared between 2 drives, and these new Seagates put out burst rates that exceed the 175 MB/s bandwith of a 1/2 Sata link.
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