FW800 7200RPM or Internal Hard Disk 7200RPM?

[Rafael Amador]

External.
Let the internal HD for the System and Applications and put the media in another HD.
rafael

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[Loic De lame]

Definitely second that. Best to keep the media separate from the system drive if possible for performance.

~ Loïc

[Romy Marx]

I know the external is safer.
But i ask regarding the performance..
is both same speed?

ROMY

[Nace Zavrl]

Definitely use the external for editing, as using the same drive for editing and running applications, slows you down quite a bit. You will get much better performance editing on the external drive.

Nace,

[Loic De lame]

Technically, no, FW 800 and an internal drive aren’t the same speed. FW800 is 800Mb/s (megabits, not bytes) and internal drives in computers these days use eSATA, rated at 3Gb/s (gigabits).

So in MB (megabytes), that would put FW800 at 100MB and eSATA at 375MB. This is of course all theoretical. Hard drives though can only do 90MB/s. So these interfaces won’t be your bottleneck.

This is all the theory and numbers that I know. Correct me if I’m wrong.

But in either case, it depends on what format you’re going to be editing. Considering that you’re using a MacBookPro, you’re not going to be doing uncompressed footage with it. So you should be fine.

Again, as everyone is saying, external is better. Yes, you can edit on your system drive, but it isn’t going to help you that much.

~ Loïc

[Mark Laslo]

I have a quick question along these lines.

Does it matter which drive I store my project files on. Right now I have them on the same drive as the media. My system files and program files are on a separate drive.

Thanks,

Mark

[Shane Ross]

Project files should be on the system drive. Media on external. If your media drive died, then you’d lose everything. Not good. Back up the project file to the external, just in case the system drive dies. Have a backup.

As for where to store media. Internal system drive will work for DV, but beyond that, gotta have an external. Pretty much an editing “must have.”

Shane

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[Rafael Amador]

Hi Loic,
Is not just about speed, but about sharing tasks.
With 2 HDs you have 2 “heads” instead of one reading and writing.
Make things easier for your system.
Cheers,
rafael

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[Mark Laslo]

I just want to double check – could the “external” drive be a separate internal SATA drive if using a Mac Pro?

[Nace Zavrl]

Yes, that would actually be even better, but you have to make sure that you keep your applications and system files separate from that drive.

Nace,