Installing RAID for native HDV editing

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Nikolaj

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As my AspectHD gives an image inferior to native HDV (against the experience of everyone else, it seems), I'm considering to start editing in native HDV instead.

I have a Core 2 Duo 6600 processor
2 GB DDR2 RAM
GA-965P-DS4 motherboard
ASUS 7900GTX graphics card
3 x 300GB 7200rpm drives (of which one is the system disk)

What I need is faster disk drives to handle the HDV stream, right?
I was thinking that a simple, fast solution would be an external firewire RAID HD, but I don't know much about those.

I'm now wondering if anyone here has experience with external RAID disks. I could also go through the trouble of installing internal RAID disks, but using the motherboard resources for that is recommended against on Videoguys.com, so an external solution sounds safer.

Please help with suggestions.
 
Since you realize that everyone else's experience with AspectHD is opposite to yours, I'd recomend that you figure out why that is.

However, if you want to edit HDV natively, you do not need a RAID. HDV is only 25Mb/s - same as DV.

If you want to purchase an external RAID then I'd recomend a SATA RAID, I have one of these and it works well. http://www.g-technology.com/Products/G-SATA.cfm

It doesn't really matter if the RAID is internal or external, I believe that what the videoguys was cautioning agains was using the RAID as your system disk.
 
Actually Videoguys were cautioning against using the RAID controller built in on some motherboards. Instead they opted for a RAID controller PCI card.
They reported some bad experiences when using built-in RAID-controller.

Not using the RAID disk as your system disk goes without saying, of course.
 
just tio clarify. We highly recommend using RAID0 for your video storage and we do recommend using the on board SATA raid controllers.

We do not recommend using a RAID0 for your system/boot drive.

Gary
 
[FONT=Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif]I was refering to this text on the page http://www.videoguys.com/system.htm:[/FONT]


[FONT=Helvetica, Geneva, Arial, SunSans-Regular, sans-serif]Integrated EIDE RAID controllers on the motherboard
Our customers have had many tech issues with built on raid controllers. Most times it is a driver or bios issue. But with some mobo / chipsets, the on board raid controllers gobble up resources and can actually slow down system performance and throughput for NLE. That's why Videgoguys don't give them a strong recommendation. We aren't saying they don't work, it's just that too often they are troublesome. [/FONT]

Looking at it again, I see it only applies to EIDE disks. Sorry about that.

Nikolaj
 
Nikolaj - when i built my internal RAID drive system...i went with a internal raid controller card (Broadcom) and set up as a RAID 5 - it was pretty simple...you can find quite a bite of information online on comparison test between different cards..when i purchase a new system next year...i will probably go with the eSATA RAID drive setup...
 
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