Hard Ware

JayC wrote on 9/28/2001, 3:34 PM

Up grading H/D's from 2 to 3..
C. drive 40GB / OS, programs, FlightSims, MS TrainSim, etc, PaintShopPro & VegasVideo..
D. drive 80GB / To capture A/V files to & edit on..
E. drive 80GB to render to??
All drives Western Digital Internal EIDE Ultra ATA 100 7200 rpm..

VV program is now on the C drive, can it be on E drive where I am editing?

Will this arrangement give me room to edit and render 60 minuets of finished program, digital or analog video or is it over kill??

Any better arrangement for this set-up?? Like 2 100GB HD instead of 3HD??

Computer, 500MB Pentium III, 512MB SDRAM memory, Sound Blaster Live! Platinum..

An old retired film editer that has to keep his finger in some place.. Thanks for the input..

Comments

Jdodge wrote on 9/28/2001, 4:09 PM

Hi JayC,

No need to put Vegas on the other drive. Keep it off the drive you are rendering to and leave it in the drive with your OS and other applications. Leave the drive that you are rendering to as a seperate entity, so that when you render that drive isn't being accessed by anything else.

You might want to consider a RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Discs) configuration for those two 80GB drives. That is a lot of data space when you consider that NTSC DV is ~4mb/sec. The 160GB of space you have equals about 12 1/2 hours of DV space (4mb/sec x 60sec= 240mb/min x 60 min= 14.4gb/hour of NTSC DV. 180gb/14.4gb= 12.5 hours of NTSC DV). With a RAID contoller you could set up practically a failsafe mirror protection (the data from one drive is mirrored to another so that if one goes down you don't lose your critical footage) or boost the performance of your ATA100 drives. Look at www.promise.com for more info on a RAID configuration.

Does anyone else have some further suggestions for JayC?