System Upgrade

tjcinnamon wrote on 8/16/2006, 1:57 PM
In October I'll be taking out a loan to upgrade my computer. As of yet I'll be getting a Core 2 E6700, with Asus MOBO, 4GB of Corsair TwinX PC8000 ram, with a Conopus ADVC 300. My Dilema is the Hard drives. Would it be worth it to get 3 250GB SATA 3g drives and hook them up RAID 5, or would I be better off getting 3 300GB SCSI RAID 5 drives for alot more money. The money is not really an issue if there will be a significant performance increase as far as editting is concerned.

Also what in your eyes are the best drives for editting, SATA, SCSI, RAIDed or non, are there other kinds of drives made specifically for editting.

Also are there any video cards that you would recomend that would help for 350 or less. I have a matrox for dual monitor output, should I upgrade??

Is the best set up for Hard drives, one partition with system, and one partition with vegas, and one seperate data (project) drive. Or could I set it up with a system drive and have vegas on there and then have the RAID 5 the project drive.

Thanks, JOe K.

Comments

vicmilt wrote on 8/17/2006, 5:09 AM
Hi Joe -

I'm not a techno geek so I can't comment on the hardware side (sorry).

But you should definitely leave your C: drive specifically for system and programs. Put all your data on either a single outboard drive or in a Raid situation.
Raid will be faster than single drive for data acquistion and manipulation.

Vegas does not need a super high-speed video board to function well. It really doesn't use any of that power, like a game would. I believe you can keep your current video setup.

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tjcinnamon wrote on 8/17/2006, 7:10 AM
Should the Vegas project be located in that data drive, or the system drive.

Anyone else know if a RAIDed SCSI would be worth it??
jkrepner wrote on 8/17/2006, 7:23 AM
Joe, it really depends what you are trying to do with Vegas. We need more info.

If you are editing uncompressed HD, then you might need RAID1 with really fast drives.... and lots of them and SCSI is always best. Bang for buck, I can't see why you'd spend the extra $$$ for SCSI, not with SATA drives so fast. However, if you are capturing standard definition video, then just about any IDE or Sata drive will be fast enough... for the most part. No RAID needed.

Will you be editing multiple projects at the same time? Are these long projects with lots of takes, or camera angles? HD, SD, HDV?

edit: I always save my project files to the same drive as the media files (not system drive). Many people prefer to save their projects to a third drive (and to media drive) for crash recovery reasons.