Best Windows O/S for Vegas 5?

Jiefu wrote on 1/6/2005, 6:54 PM
Hi,
I would like to know what Windows O/S is best for Vegas 5. I just got a Dell Dimension 8400 3.2GHz, 320GB RAID 0 with 1 GHz RAM and NVidia GeForce video card with 256MB, all still in the box. I got it with Windows XP Media Center installed, thinking that would be the ideal O/S for semi-professional video- and audio-editing. But I have been told by someone at www.videoguys.com that their bundled real-time NLE packages, including Sony Vegas 5, won't work well with XP Media Center, and that I should get XP Professional, instead. Can anyone here confirm or dispute this? Thanks very much in advance. I'd also be interested to know if there are any issues I need to be aware of regarding using Vegas 5 with a RAID 0 setup.

Jiefu

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Coursedesign wrote on 1/6/2005, 6:59 PM
Yes, XP Pro works best.

XP Media Center is too new, there have been several problem reports with codecs etc., not funny.

Vegas 5 works great with RAID0, no problems, interestingly XP's software RAID gives better performance [for video] than hardware RAID.

In practice, RAID0 does nothing for DV material. It is only needed for uncompressed and HD. If one drive goes bad, you lose all data on all the drives....

Jiefu wrote on 1/6/2005, 7:20 PM
CourseDesign,
Thanks very much for the info. Is there a greater likelihood of a hardware RAID0 drive going bad than a drive using XP's software RAID? I've been using PC's for 20 years and never had a drive go bad. Then again, I've never done high-end video- and audio-editing before.

Jiefu
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 1/6/2005, 7:45 PM
I assume that you are talking about drivers? I've never heard of a software raid. Anyway.
Jiefu wrote on 1/6/2005, 7:57 PM
An explanation of XP Pro software RAID is here:
http://www.pcstats.com/articleview.cfm?articleid=830&page=5

But it's all academic at this point. I've got a hardware RAID, so unless it is somehow incompatible or unwieldy with Vegas 5, I'm sticking with it.

Jiefu