OT: Raid 0 for video editing

woznme wrote on 11/23/2004, 12:52 PM

Pardon the newbie question:

Is raid 0 the way to go with 2 160gb sata drives for video editing?
Also is there anywhere I can read about raid and how it works?

I am about to upgrade my ancient athlon xp1600+ system to something more recent and would appreciate the advice on raid 0

thankyou in advance

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fmc wrote on 11/23/2004, 1:11 PM

Woznme -

We currently have 4 - 160's striped and have great success.
Look on M/S for information. Make yourself aware of the downside with striped drives. All procedures have +/- .

Jerry Bryant

woznme wrote on 11/23/2004, 2:39 PM

Thanks Jerry for that info

Another question to you if I could please.

In that set up would l be able to have my O/S and video files on those same 2 drives? Or would it create a bottleneck as the VideoGuys website suggests and that I would also need a dedicated video drive?

I apologise if these seem obvious questions but I would like as a reliable and fast machine as I possibly can.

cheers
Peter Haynes

ScottW wrote on 11/23/2004, 3:00 PM

This biggest potential issue with Raid 0 is that if you lose one disk in the set, you've lost everything.

I don't think you can put the OS on a Raid 0 set - I wouldn't suggest doing it even if you could; get a 3rd drive just for the OS and leave your video on the Raid 0 set.

--Scott

fmc wrote on 11/23/2004, 4:38 PM

woznme -

scottW is correct. We have our OS isolated on a separate drive. Its documented here that Vegas operates better on a separate drive, not a partition of the OS drive, but a physical HD. If we need to reinstall the OS, we just format the drive and install. Down time is minimal. Striping drives is definitely for video not OS.

Jerry

woznme wrote on 11/24/2004, 1:00 AM

Thanks guys

This has helped me understand it a lot better.

cheers

Peter