SCSI vs SATA for Video

[o2pb]

First post! Hi

Im going to be buying NewTek's Video Toaster 4 hardware/software for video switching/editing/broadcasting and they recommend that you use a striped array of 4 SCSI drives (Raid 0), since they delivery the best read/write performance... but the price is insane... and the capacity miniscule.

I stumbled upon this article
http://www.barefeats.com/hard35.html

According to this SATA drives aren't that much slower than SCSI.....but the price is MUCH less. I'm going to need around 1 terabyte of storage.... and with SCSI thats going to cost $6,000.

Does anyone use SATA drives instead of SCSI for video editing/switching? Hows the performance?

 

[-Paul-]

my new machine is going to have SATA it is supposed to be insane!!! (in a good way) i use the old type (what ever it is called i forgot) and i edited video on it and it worked ok but i bet SATA is going to be the best

 

[o2pb]

SATA won't be bad, but I just wanna know if there are any noticable performance differences between SCSI. On paper SCSI is a little faster... but I wanna know how that works out in reality.

 

[prosser13]

It's not going to be that much difference.

SATA II is even better though. And SATA isn't really that much better than IDE in the first place.

 

[o2pb]

Bump!