Whats the best hard drive type for HD video?
The hot new thing nowadays is SATA – aka “Serial ATA”. It’s a relatively cheap technology that provides 90% of the functionality of SCSI, for roughly the same cost as plain old ATA. And in some cases, it’s even faster than SCSI. Everyone’s going nuts over it. There are two flavors, internal and external. Take your pick. Your Mac Pro will come with four internal SATA drive bays and one drive (160GB, 250GB, or 500GB). The size will depend on what you pick at purchase. If performance is a must, and cost no object, some recommendations: Look for after-market, high-end “10,000 RPM” drives. Make sure the drives support “native command queuing”, an advanced drive feature in SATA-II that used to only be on SCSI. (Your Mac Pro will already support it.) Consider
