What are the main advantages of ADAT/FST?

1. 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
5400 RPM drives, and UDMA-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+ formated hard disk.
2. 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.
3. 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 in a matter of months. With ADAT/FST, your low-cost drives can last for years.
4. No defragmenting required. Because data is written to the disk in such an audio-optimized, reliable manner, the ADAT/FST never requires your drive to be defragmented. Even after editing, a track appears as a whole piece, not dozens offragments.

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