• VEGAS Pro

  Reccomendation on HW/SW config

  Posted by Jouell on February 14, 2006 at 8:24 pm

  Hi.

  Brand new to Video Editing.

  We have a 1 x 2.8 GHZ cpu in a Dell 8400, 1 GB RAM, and 160 GB SATA drive.

  Looking for reccomendation on HW/SW config to increase performance. ( All facets)

  I am think about going to 2 GB RAM (Dell brand so its supported) and then adding 2 drives in a RAID 0 (Maybe 2 x 120 GBs since the Mobo only supports up to ~410 GB). Not sure if I should go with SATA or EIDE? And for that matter SCSI. I’d like to achieve a decent price performance balance here (don’t we all?)

  Also, I haven’t found a decent Vegas guide to any of this, so sorry if I missed the FAQ. I’d love to read a whitepaper, etc.

  Open for ideas
  Thanks!
  -John

  Jouell replied 20 years, 3 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Jouell

  February 14, 2006 at 8:55 pm

  Well based on the following:

  https://shop.store.yahoo.com/directron/patasata.html

  my aim will be at SATA.

  Doesn’t seem all that much more expensive, but the power specs look bettter. As for SCSI, looks too expensive.

  Now can anyone recommend a good quality SATA Raid card that allows me to:

  1. Setup the RAID0 array with my preferred stripesize.

  2. Have each drive should be master on its own channel (separate cable) for maximum performance.
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  Sada

  February 15, 2006 at 5:07 am

  If you are doing DV editing, then the raid isn’t necessary—performance increases will be negligible. SATA is the drive of choice. Otherwise the 2gb of memory should work fine.
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  Terje A. bergesen

  February 15, 2006 at 5:16 am

  For video editing, if you have 1G of RAM and reasonably resent hardware, the one thing that matters is CPU speed. You need ample HD space, but anything that is sold today will essentially do. SATA is the way to go. Memory will not hurt, but it may not have a significant impact on your performance.

  —
  Terje A. Bergesen
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  Jouell

  February 15, 2006 at 4:13 pm

  Thanks for all the responses!

  I am now thinking of:

  Adding 2 SATA drives

  1 for raw data
  1 for rendered images.

  This link, https://faq.storagereview.com/tiki-index.php?page=SingleDriveVsRaid0 has more details, but that seems like a good, balanced price/performance for a single user doing video editing.

  In the past (using pinnacle), the cpu was not used too much and commit charge / peak hovered at just under 1 GB, which would lead me to believe cpu in under used waiting for I/O, ram could use a little boost, but not taxed.

  Still awaiting the box for vegas though, and eager to get a hw config setup.

  Thanks again!
  All ideas are appreciated!

  -John

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