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riredale wrote on 8/22/2003, 4:52 PM
Sorry, you won't find any brains in this post, though I'm good as parroting back what others have said.

SATA allows you to use smaller connectors and thinner cables; any other benefits are pretty much nonexistent at this point in time.

Raid is great if you need a huge data transfer rate. DV only needs a rate of 4MB/sec. Since any old drive these days can deliver transfer rates of 25-75MB/sec, a fatter data pipe isn't needed for DV. If you're dealing with uncompressed video or High Definition video, the extra bandwidth would be nice to have.
Jsnkc wrote on 8/22/2003, 4:57 PM
For DV your standard Internal IDE 7200 RPM drive will work fine, the only time you need to go to SCSSI or Serial ATA is if you are using a completely uncompressed system such as the *cough* toaster system. Aahh, I can't believe I spoke the T word.
Flack wrote on 8/22/2003, 6:10 PM
I agree with the posts above no real benifit, I set a raid array up when I first started and it was ok at first, but when it goes wrong " boy does it go wrong" I lost a lot of data through it, so I stick to ATA 7,200 rpm drives now and have not had any issues at all.


Flack
farss wrote on 8/22/2003, 7:03 PM
I can only add to what others have said, I too thought RAID-0 was going to give me great benefits. The only plus it really gave was turning 2 X 80 GB drives into 1 X 160 GB drive.
And then it went wrong, I've since ditched RAID-0, the two drives seem to have nothing wrong with them so I don't really understand why it went wrong and don't really care that much.
So unless you need to use uncompressed HD in which case I'd go to SCSI RAID just forget about it. SATA V PATA really isn't a video issue, certainly SATA has many advantages for everything and is no doubt the way the world will go, at least as it rolls out PATA drives are getting cheaper.
Howdie wrote on 8/22/2003, 8:36 PM
yeha , hehe, it makes all the 8mb cache ATA-100 drives so much cheaper now...

the thing is i just bought a Gigabyte GA 7VAXP with raid, and i was think of using it. Is raid so much trouble?
musicvid10 wrote on 8/22/2003, 9:16 PM
Yes, RAID is so much trouble. I know that some use it for video capture successfully, but why? It can be volatile, drop frames, and since video capture well in excess of the DV standard is a snap even on ATA66, why bother?

In other words, 7200 rpm, ATA100 EIDE is more than enough, and inherently stable, so why risk having the whole thing wink out on a Raid array?

Some RAID systems have a JBOD or other no-stripe spanning option, and that can be useful for storing those big projects and archives where max storage is the concern. Otherwise, save RAID for your servers and use IDE for your video. Serial ATA is cool, but why spend the extra $?
craftech wrote on 8/23/2003, 10:08 AM
Dara,

I made a suggestion to you about two months ago regarding a system. I am not sure if you ever read it because you never responded. It was the result of quite a bit of research in terms of what I felt would suit you needs based upon your posts on this forum:

http://www.sonicfoundry.com/Forums/ShowMessage.asp?MessageID=192476&Page=0

John