How big should a scratch disk be?

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GL2guy

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If you had a seperate hard drive specifically to be your video editing 'scratch disk'... how big should this drive be? I generally work on projects that are 5-10 mins max. Would a 74GB hard drive be enough space for a scratch disk? Also, has anyone seen any perfomance gains by using a 10k RPM drive as their scratch disk as opposed to 7,200rpm?
 
With DV being 13GB/hr roughly, and music at 10MB/minute, I'd think nearly 80G should be plenty for a 5-10 minute project.

But I'm no expert...
 
PerroneFord said:
With DV being 13GB/hr roughly, and music at 10MB/minute, I'd think nearly 80G should be plenty for a 5-10 minute project.

But I'm no expert...
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Unfortunately, I should have mentioned that this will be for HDV editting. Does that make any difference? Also, would a 10k drive be a better investment over a 7,200rpm drive... or is the speed difference negligble? Thanks.
 
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