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Switching HDD types for video source files
I’m considering moving all my video source files (5d2 with Vasst GearShift standins) from my system drive (filling up) to a new 7,200 3tb USB3 external (using USB3 not 2), but worried about the performance hit in Vegas compared to my internal SATAII. Don’t want my beloved Vegas to slow down at all. Any thoughts?
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I have hard drives connected via eSata as well as USB 3.0 and have never noticed a difference in performance.
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Just curious…
Are you out of room for an internal drive, or is this a laptop?Esata is my choice for external drives. My jbod is connected with esata.
Jeff
2-Xeon X5680 @ 3.33 MSI Mobo 48GB DDR3 GTX 580 3072MB 16TB Attached Storage Win7 Vegas 11 x64
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My projects are all on external USB2 drives in a desktop docking station.
Unless you are working with uncompressed 4:4:4 (4K) video, you don’t need anything faster.Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
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It’s a dektop, but my sata controller went bunk (it was affected by the Intel Sandy Bridge sata fiasco), so my internal slots that still work are full, and my esata drive stopped being accessible. I need it to be external in any case for changing worksites. Rather than get an sata/esata pci card I thought to be a bit more future-friendly (in terms of laptops and other devices) to go USB3, knowing it would be a bit of a hit in speed. I can see from initial tests it’s about 15-20% slower than my esata, but for Lightroom it has no discernible impact (I’m a photographer, video is a side thing). Not sure about Vegas though. I am using Vasst Gearshift proxies in Vegas, so I don’t think it’ll be an issue.
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Technically speaking, both SATA and USB3 are going much faster than your HDD is going. It may be possible for USB3 to show some odd latency issues over SATA — the software stack is a bit deeper over USB than over SATA. I have not noticed it to be a noticable issue, but I’m also not depending on USB3 for higher speed drives (I do have a RAID on USB2, at least when my FW800 interface decides not to work — pretty regularly, Windows is not the platform for Firewire).
My solution for large projects is a SATA drive bay. You can find these for about $20-$30 online. You put one in a 5.25″ drive bay (assuming a desktop PC, natch) and your 3.5″ drive goes in as if it were a cartridge. This makes is easy and cheap to swap out drives, and of course, they’re going at full SATA speed. Smaller projects go to my internal 3TB drive and get eventually wind up on the 8TB RAID (and optical media archive, of course). But I’ve had single projects that run around 1TB once everything’s put together, so the SATA cartridge is ideal for that. New project, new HDD.
-Dave
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Here’s my solution:
And this is my project disks:
Steve Mann
MannMade Digital Video
http://www.mmdv.com
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