What raid config should I use if any for high file size video writing! I WILL GIVE YOU 5 BUCKS IF YOU READ THE DESCRIPTION!!

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So I recently heard about YouTube adding support for 60fps video streaming and being that I now have a 144hz monitor and the gpu to play at high frame rates I was thrilled ( 30fps looks horrible to me now -_- ) Then I ran into an issue that my being a fan of dxtory I am aware of its write speed issues and being that I cant write more that 29 - 45fps on good days to my hard drive and that I don't want to write to my ssd, I have since then taken some time to learn about raid arrays and I find them very interesting now I would just go with a raid 0 two drive array no matter what to boost my write speed without having to lower my capture settings on dxtory even if I have to risk total data loss but then It donned on me about what raid 10 does! Now I currently only have $140 bucks on me to get two dedicated hard drives for raid 0 and could later being that I am still developing my fan base and view count on my videos get two more for a raid 10 array. But my question is that if I where to do this would I need a raid card, what hard drives should I get that have good reliability and high write speed for under 80 bucks preferably and if raid 10 is worth it for writing only videos that will be uploaded to YouTube anyways. Lastly I just want to insure that by running raid 0 with two 2 TB drives will indeed improve my ability to write video files to my drives.
 
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The best quality and performance Hard Drive you can find within budget is Western Digital Black. This hard drive is designed to sustain consistent heavy load such as gameplay capture and build for performance. It comes in 1 to 4 TB variations. The HDD speed is around 150 MB/s, but that of course depends whenever your motherboard has SATA3, mine does that's why it goes above 200 MB/s.

WD Black 1 TB Amazon US ($79.19)
WD Black 1 TB Amazon EU (£55.99)

P.S. I'm sure ;)

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There is something bottle-neck with your system. A HDD at a BAD day with adware and virus all over th esystem, it can write 40MB/s (320Mbpcs). I'm very conservative. lol

BD video file max our 68Mbps ( that is including DTS-HD codec), so you triple the frame rate to 72fps , it's 204Mb/s, still under 320Mbs

There is/are something missing, trying to increase the HDD write, it is not your solution.
 

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Well then what is! my hard drives write is 85mb/s average.
My cpu is a i7 2600k
my gpu is a gtx 760
I have 8 gb of ram
and a 500 watt power supply that can handle my specs fine
In any game I play I can get 120 + fps wile recording its just that when I play my videos back they have stutter which I though was a slow write speed issue. But if its not then what is I am running a fresh install of windows any my hard drive is a practically empty 1 TB seagate drive? when I write to my ssd my videos don't have stutter but I don't want to do that being that writing to a ssd in large amounts is considered bad! so what should I do here if you have any recommendations!
 

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The issue is that when I use dxtory to record my vids and write to my hdd they have a huge a mount of stutter! When I observe my frame rate and how many of these frames are being written to my hdd its dips alot and cant write 60 frames in real time, THIS IS AN ISSUE ONLY APPARENT WITH DXTORY COMPARED TO FRAPS OR BANDICAM, I AM NOT SURE WHY DXTORY HAS LARGE WRITE SIZES BUT I WANT TO FIX THIS!
 

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1. May I ask what video codec do you use to record with Dxtory?
2. 85 MB/s is barely enough to record 1080p@30 fps without dropping frames.
3. For any RAID questions you may consider opening a thread at Encoding Talk forum, one user specifically there is specialised with gameplay capture and RAIDs.
4. I don't need 5$ :)
 

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Yes I use lagariath loss-less codec, I have been given some recommendations for other codecs in the past but really want to know if running a raid 0 config would be ideal to fix this issue as I am not really willing to drop my quality for file size. My only other question is what two hard drives you would recommend for a raid config specifically for this issue.

PS are you sure you don't want 5 bucks? XD
 

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The best quality and performance Hard Drive you can find within budget is Western Digital Black. This hard drive is designed to sustain consistent heavy load such as gameplay capture and build for performance. It comes in 1 to 4 TB variations. The HDD speed is around 150 MB/s, but that of course depends whenever your motherboard has SATA3, mine does that's why it goes above 200 MB/s.

WD Black 1 TB Amazon US ($79.19)
WD Black 1 TB Amazon EU (£55.99)

P.S. I'm sure ;)
 
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Thank god, finally a good answer my only question would be that according to a hard drive bench marking site the HDD I had picked out is just as good as the wd black but cheaper Sea gate Barracuda 2 TB HDD. Would you say that the wd black is more reliable?/ Worth the money?
 

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Seagate Barracuda is indeed not a bad Hard Drive, but not better than WD Black. Seagate is a fast yet casual HDD. It's not as reliable as WD Black which is developed specifically for High and long lasting Performance. WD have a counter-part to Seagate Barracuda drive too, it's called WD Blue.

WD Blue is too a good, fast HDD but it's developed for casual work just like Seagate Drive. So it's your call if you want to save on reliability :)
 
I am not storage expert, but if your video processor reads one file, and writes another - what if you keep input on one physical disk, and output on another physical disk, bypassing RAIDs?

If any of these files is small enough to fit on an SSD - that's another option.