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SAME AS PROJECT????
I have two 200gig Maxtor serial drives striped together to make a 400gig raid. All of my scratch disks are set to “SAME AS PROJECT”, and my projects are saved to the raid. My operating system is on an 80gig Maxtor 7200rpm drive. Should I be running my project, media and scratch all on the same drive? If not, how should I configure my system?
My computer is usually pretty stable with small projects, but when I’m working on a large project (30 min. video or greater), my system gets realllllllly unstable and Premiere freezes.\My Specs:
PrPro 1.5
WinXP pro
ASUS P4C800E Deluxe Mobo
P4 3.2 HT proc.
2 GB DDR400
400 gig serial RAID (maxtor)
80 gig Main Drive
onboard RAID controller
Radeon 9000Pro dual vid. card
Pyro firewire card
Audigy Platinum sound card -
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Maybe you could have a heating factor. If its possible check the HDs temp…And better add cooling fans to all your HD & memory.
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Jason,
I have 4 80 gig drives in a raid 0 config and had simular problems when I tried using it for anything other than a working temp drive … I have a total of over 1200 gigs on my media computer so I can get away with it … If I was using your system I would get rid of the raid and use them as seprate drives … Remember you can get audio dropouts when capturing clips from your camcorder if you capture the audio in the same drive as the project so I set up my video preview and capture in the project and my audio capture and preview out of another drive ………. WILLIE
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Jason, the best set up with scratch disks is as follows…
Drive (1) Adobe program
Drive (2 – Raid) Video files – the files you capture from the camera or other sources.
Drive (3) All temporary files, preview files, conformed files.
Now, you can get away with combining files from Drive (2) and (3) but for efficiency you need to seperate the Adobe program from other files or your system will constantly be seeking information from the one source which, as the project grows larger, will slow down everything.
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Redgum,
When you say “Adobe Program”, do you mean the application (PrPro), or the Project? And are you saying it needs to be on its own drive, apart from the OS, media and scratch?
Also, if I put my media on my raid and preview files on another drive, does the second drive need to be as fast as the raid?
The raid transfers information at twice the speed of a normal 7200rpm drive. -
I don’t think it’s a heat issue, because I have a Thermaltake case with 6 fans, the raid drives are in coolers and my ram has cooler strips on them.
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Sorry Jason, I meant of course, Prem Pro on the main drive with Windows etc.
The reason for seperating your video files (Raid) and preview files (different drive) is that when you render, for instance, you access one drive (for reading) and the other for writing. Quite a marked difference in speed and time compared to both being on the same drive.
In regard to your raid vs single drive you will find the difference in speed to be about x 1.5 and this will vary according to the type of disc activity, file size etc.
I agree that heat wouldn’t appear to be your problem with your setup. You can easily sort this out by taking the side off the case and run a normal house fan onto the MB.
http://www.redgumtv.com.auRedgum Television Productions
Broadcast & Corporate Documentaries
Brisbane, Australia
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