Using Medea LVD Raid with Vegas?

Opticus wrote on 2/3/2010, 11:40 AM

I have a lovely Media VideoRaid RTR 5/480 LVD raid with 5 HDs that I may want to use with Vegas 9. The raid requires a SCSI Ultra160 host adapter card. It’s essentially brand new, I used it briefly with a previous editing system (Speed Razor, Windows NT) before switching to Vegas about 5 years ago. On that system the raid plugged into a Matrox Digisuite card. I am OK to delete the old data on this raid.

Currently I am running Vegas 9 on an XP computer, I have one open PCI slot.

Question 1: Is there any data-rate advantage to using this raid, compared to the internal ATA and external USB drives I am currently using?

Question 2: I have an open PCI 2.3 slot on the XP computer (120 pin, bus speed 133 MB/s), what’s the best card to connect my raid to the computer for highest data rate?

Or should I wait until I upgrade to a newer computer (likely within a year)?

Thanks!
Cal

Comments

farss wrote on 2/3/2010, 11:18 PM

1) Certainly there would be compared to USB.
2) Adaptec cards seem very popular. I've used a couple over the years without drama. Better to spend more and get a controller that takes as much load of the CPU as possible.

All of that said a 5 year old RAID is well, really old and it might simply not be worth spending the money on. For the price of the SCSI controller you could buy several 1TB SATA drives.

Bob.