• Adobe Premiere Pro

  Raid0 and premiere CS5.5

  Posted by Janis Andrejevs on February 22, 2012 at 11:24 pm

  Hello, I’d like some advice from experienced Premiere editors.

  I’ve got a simple question: if I buy two 2TB sata HDD and create Raid0 from them in disc utility, set my scratch disc to it. Will it significantly improve render/export times?

  Or can someone suggest best practice for long project HD editing (DSLR). I’m talking about weddings.

  My system:

  Hack Pro 🙂
  intel i7 2600 3.4 Ghz, 16GB DDR3, HD6870 1GB GPU, 3 monitor setup.
  inside I have: 2TB caviar green x2, 500gb caviar blue (OSX on it), 1TB caviar green x2.

  I was FCP for 5 years, but now due to DSLR footage I’ve started using premiere, but on long projects render, playback and export is still concerning me.

  On another level: do you think GPU with cuda would be good value for performance?

  Thanks for every advice,
  Janis

  Jon Frost replied 14 years, 2 months ago 4 Members · 6 Replies
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  Ann Bens

  February 23, 2012 at 12:14 am

  Raid 0 will give you improvement, but not significant.
  Green HDD are not suited for editing if they run at 5400 rpm.
  Disks need to be at 7200 at all times.

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  Vince Becquiot

  February 23, 2012 at 12:36 am

  It will not give you any improved render/export time. In fact, if it’s a software RAID, as many of those built in mother boards, it could cause a slow down.

  It could avoid the need for rendering previews if your footage’s bit rate is too high for a single drive, and you have the CPU/GPU to back it up.

  Vince Becquiot

  Kaptis Studios
  San Francisco – Bay Area
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  Janis Andrejevs

  February 23, 2012 at 12:49 am

  Hi,

  thanks for replying.
  The Green ones i have are 7200.

  I’ve heard that on long projects raid will help to read all those clips from the hdd?

  do you think having media on one hdd and render on another would help a lot?

  Lighting cameraman/editor
  RED, F3, FS100, ALEXA, 5Dii/7D/60D

  Premiere CS5.5 & FCP
  Hack Pro, i7 3.4GHZ, 16GB DDR3, HD6870 1GB
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  Vince Becquiot

  February 23, 2012 at 5:52 am

  [Janis Andrejevs] “I’ve heard that on long projects raid will help to read all those clips from the hdd?
  “

  Yes, it may help for a really large project where Premiere needs to access a large number of files. I’m not sure if this is still the case with CS5.

  [Janis Andrejevs] “do you think having media on one hdd and render on another would help a lot?”

  It’s not going to help render faster, but again, it can help realtime playback for mixed previews.

  Vince Becquiot

  Kaptis Studios
  San Francisco – Bay Area
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  Ann Bens

  February 23, 2012 at 12:43 pm

  Yes green ones can be 7200 but they drop to a lower rate for energy saving purpose.
  The greens are not suite for video-editing.

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  Jon Frost

  February 25, 2012 at 7:25 am

  Grab yourself a G-Tech G Safe which is 7,200RPM all the time, RAID 1 Redundancy and built to take the rigors of constant seek/read/write… 1TB@ $350, 2TB @ $550 or better 3TB @ $700.

  How much space do you have in original files? Are you planning to edit natively in Adobe Premiere Pro CS 5.5? The more DIMM you have and the better the GPU the better all around. Make sure your Mac is current for OS, firmware and software upgrades and turn off everything running except for your Editing software.

  Are you editing on a copy of your original files? Hope so. If you go to CS5.5 you can edit natively without transcoding, but your machine needs to be 64-bit architecture.

  Good luck and happy post(ing).

  Jon Frost

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