Serial ATA drives? - Page 2

MoJoe · #11 (**permalink**) 05-09-2004, 07:10 PM

Originally Posted by tongachutt

Is it no longer possible to unlock or buy DVD drives to play any region?

There are many different RAID configurations check http://www.acnc.com/raid.html for their definitions and what they do.

Basically:
Raid 0 (striped) array speeds up disc read/write and so is good for video editing.
Raid 1 (mirrored) array is a fault tollerant setup which is good for backup.
Raid 0+1 (striped and mirrored) both speeds up disk access and backs up all your data, you need 3 hdd minimum fir this setup.
You need either a RAID capable mobo or a PCI raid controller to achieve RAID configurations.

If you are configuring a new PC make sure that the motherboard has both IDE and SATA(which often comes with an onboard raid controller) to give yourself the most options/best upgrade path.

tonga

And with the superior stability of modern drives, you'll probably want a RAID 0 system. I have one and it is very, very fast. I used to just have the two drives seperately, but then I bought a card and put them together. Simply amazing, and very cheap too.

Marc Peters · #12 (**permalink**) 05-09-2004, 07:34 PM

I'm being lazy - creating a RAID array, does it require a format (i.e can you use drives with existing data)?

MoJoe · #13 (**permalink**) 05-09-2004, 07:54 PM

nope, srry it requires a format.

then again, this isn't necessarily a bad thing. sure you have to back everything up, but when you reinstall everything it runs so smoothly because it's not bogged down by all the crap you've built up. a very clean feeling...

Marc Peters · #14 (**permalink**) 05-09-2004, 07:59 PM

Yer, probably about time I formatted anyway

DrGonzo · #15 (**permalink**) 08-17-2004, 05:35 PM

I am new to this forum and realise that this reply is a _little_ late but..

Why not consider external drives? Either the DVD burner (or just a reader) or external harddrives. Both USB2 and FW is plenty fast enough.

Both Maxtor and Western Digital has good drives with 8MB buffer and Firewire 400 and 800 as well as USB2

DrGonzo

Alan Mills · #16 (**permalink**) 08-18-2004, 11:12 AM

I'm sure that in practice there is no issue whatsoever but Adobe quote (at least they did when I read it) that they do not support external HDDs for video editing and I use Adobe s/w.

DrGonzo · #17 (**permalink**) 08-20-2004, 12:34 PM

Originally Posted by millsy

I'm sure that in practice there is no issue whatsoever but Adobe quote (at least they did when I read it) that they do not support external HDDs for video editing and I use Adobe s/w.

Like you said: There is in practice no issue using external drives. I am using a 250GB external drive w/ 8MB buffer now (used to have a 120GB) and it works great.

I'm running 3 video channels (one with titles only) and a mix of video and titles on one and 3 audio tracks and i haven't run into any performance issues yet.

It's something to consider if you run our of available connections internally in your PC.

DrGonzo

Alan Mills · #18 (**permalink**) 08-20-2004, 01:28 PM

Agreed. I'm sure there are no 'real' issues in using external drives. It probably dates back a year or so ago when external HDDs weren't generally as fast as internal ones.

A word of warnign though. If you use an external HDD and you do find problems then the first suggestion you will hear is "move your assets onto an internal drive and call us back if you still have a problem".

Any deviation from the 'normal rules' is likely to be considered the most likely candidate until you actually prove it isn't.

My personal recommendations, therefore, would be to fit as many external drives as you want but make sure active projects reside on internal and local (because they don't support networked drives either!) drives. i.e. use the external drives for other apps and for archive/backup purposes.