What are the main advantages of ADAT/FST?
A. It allows the use of inexpensive IDE drives. This type of hard drive has become so affordable that you can leave the drives themselves on the shelf as the permanent storage medium- you don’t have to backup to tape or optical media just so you can reuse the drive. ADAT/FST is so efficient that it can accept any IDE drive made today, including 5400RPM drives, and UMA 33/66 is not required. The drives required for competing systems cost more because they require exceptionally fast seek times to keep up with the demands of multitrack audio recording in real time on a FAT32 or HFS+ formatted hard disk. B. Virtually instantaneous access time to any given point within a song, or between songs. Locate to the start, end, middle or wherever in the song that you like without hesitation. C. Longer drive life and less maintenance. ADAT/FST’s audio-optimized recording scheme is less likely to trash your drive. Traditional recording systems have been known to wear out high performance hard drives
