dennis

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Hi.
I have the following HD's. 2x120Gb IBM ATA100 and 1 Seagate 160GB SATA.

What would be the best way to configure my disk system for maximum speed. At the moment I have the Seagate as single bootable drive with OS (WinXP) on it and the 2 IBM's as raid 0.

My main use is for Video editing, compiling.

System GigabyteSQ800 Ultra (SiS655) P4 2.53 2x Corsair 256 PC2700 ll twinx.

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tabytha77

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Using the RAID as your main drive and the SATA as your video drive would be the fastest. The limitation in video encoding is the CPU. Though accessing large video files would be quicker in the RAID.
 

dennis

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Thanks for the quick reply.

So have I got this correct.
Partition the raid as follows, C:\for OS apps etc, D:\Data (perhaps DV/DVD rips etc) and use the SATA for the compiled output video.
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tabytha77

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That would work well. Partitioning like that on the RAID is also a good idea.

Some people like to set up a RAID for the video capture, but I'm sure you've noticed that Firewire still captures in real-time. Even the slowest HDD could keep up with that. Then your burner is going to be much slower than the HDD when you burn it. There's not any real benefit to the RAID capture.