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Editing off a Network drive and configuring PC Drives to Raid 0
Hello,
For video editing I curretly have 2 500 GB SATA II drives. We got a new 7 TB LAN drive running off a 1gb/s network, however, its not going that speed, rather much slower (im guessing like 50-70mb/s). I was wondering if i turn the drives on my PC into Raid 0 and edit off the Lan hard drive if i would see any increase in speed while editing on Adobe Premeier.
Anyone have any ideas or suggestions?
Thanks
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If one of the two 500GB drives is your boot drive, I wouldn’t stripe them RAID 0. Firstly, you shouldn’t be storing your media on the same drive that the program resides on. Secondly, striping RAID 0 decreases reliability – a bad idea for a boot drive. Also, performance is less critical for the program drive than it is for the media drive.
I’d just use your second drive as your media drive. It should be able to handle DV and HDV pretty well. If you want more performance, I would add a third 500GB drive, which could be striped RAID 0 with your second drive.
Editing off the LAN will probably not give you the same performance as a single SATA drive, but may work for single streams of DV and HDV. Latency becomes an issue with network drives.
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Thats a great Idea,
I’ve never worked with Raid drives before, does a Raid 0 have a tendancy to crash and loose data often? We are only working with
DV Footage, However, I experienced in Premeire Pro CS4 a lot of lag when editing off an external USB 2.0 drive (Which wasnt the case in CS3 while using) So I was wondering if editing off the network would merit any better results. -
Hi…
Raid 0 has no more a tendency towards failing than either drive individually.
The benefits of raid 0 are capacity of the volume = the sum of the 2 drives (minus formatting) and speed.
Speed is needed for lots of streams or for less compressed or uncompressed data capture and playback in editing.However if information is stored on a raid 0 set, if either 1 of the 2 drives in the set fails all the data is gone.
A single SATA drive should suffice for HDV or DV.
If you need extra capacity, add another drive but striping is not necessary.
The other thing that is tricky about HDV is that you can’t really batch capture it successfully. So if you have striped volume (RAID 0) that fails, it’s not so simple to just restore a project.
hope that helps…
Alex
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