OT: HDD setup help

overyonder wrote on 11/9/2009, 9:58 PM

I want to upgrade my old hard drives.....
Ist question is, would having a 2 disk Raid 0 as my system drive help anything? Or should I just get a modern SATA drive for that and spend the extra on more Raided discs for the data....

Also, what are people using for say a 4 disc raid - Raid 5? 10?

Thanks also for pointers to other threads...

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RalphM wrote on 11/10/2009, 9:44 AM

RAID 0 does not get you anything in terms of data redundancy. It may get you an increase in speed.

Raid 1 give you redundancy, but no increase in speed. The other RAID flavors can give redundancy and an increase in speed.

Unless you are working with uncompressed video, RAID 1 will probably suit your needs. (So will a backup to an external drive).

My Opinion,

RalphM

musicvid10 wrote on 11/10/2009, 10:45 AM

With modern drives properly set up, throughput is not an issue. The chief read/write bottleneck is usually CPU speed in Vegas. So there is no real advantage to setting up a Raid system, except as noted, for the backup afforded by Raid 1.

overyonder wrote on 11/11/2009, 8:12 AM

Thanks for that - sounds like if I'm going to be doing AVCHD then a RAID isn't neccessary.
I've set up two drives in RAID-1 for my footage, etc. I have one "C' drive. I've heard others discuss on which drive to put things like Temp files, Page files, etc, but I wasn't paying much attention at that point. With 6gig memory, I don't know that I'll even have page files(?)
What makes Vegas happy regarding where to put what?

musicvid10 wrote on 11/11/2009, 8:26 AM

Capture and keep your video on a separate drive. That's about a simple as it gets.

To backstep on my first reply a bit, the one advantage of Raid 0 is double the effective space if you have several extremely large single files.