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Hard Drive Configuration
I am a novice working on home movies. You provided great advice prior to my purchasing Sony Vegas software. Now I need to re-configure my computer (I am running out of space) to store projects and hopefully improve performance when working with Vegas, especially when rendering my videos. Is a dual external harddrive a good solution? I would like to work on a laptop at times with my movies when away from home. Do you have recommendations for performance? With an external harddrive, should I put the Vegas software on one and use the second drive for video editing? There probably are a multitude of questions I don’t know to ask on this sybject, thus I appreciate your help, again.
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I personally do pretty much what you are asking. I have found that installing the software on one drive, rendering to another and using the source material from yet another drive to be advantageous. Firewire external drives are much faster than are USB 2 drives. The thing to remember is all drives have moving parts with discs that rotate and heads that have to locate files. So it is not hard to see how relieving some of that movement by using more drives will speed things up a bit. Hope this helps..
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Well said Joe Mantaratz…That basically covers
that issue’s topic in a nutshell…Well said.Steve Rhoden
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Hello Joe,
Thank you for your response.
I am just getting back to this issue after being away and some illness.
After checking on drives I was told about Seagate desktop external drives. You pointed out the best performance can be gotten by using three physical drives versus setting up folders within one drive or partitioning a drive. I also found that esata is the fastest connection. Finally, backup would require yet another drive or alternatively I could use blueray DVD.
Rendering takes forever right now. I can see where a drive dedicated to it would make a difference. Do you have a suggestion for the size of a such a “render” drive? or suggestions on size for the storage and software drives? I make home movies that run from 30 minutes to an hour or so. I use Sony Vegas Pro. Should I consider how full each drive should get before problems start happening?
Finally, I wanted external drives so that I could hook it up to the laptop when not at home, however, if you can tell me that performance would be much better by adding internal drives to our home computer, I may forgo external drives. That is if I can find local people who can help with installing the drives. We probably need help anyway with installing the esata drives.
I really appreciate your advice,
Robert Bockholdt
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