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HDD drive for today and tomorrow
Needs:
1 HDD (or two in RAID 0) for a total of 1TB for source files (mostly read)
1 HDD (or two in RAID 0) as above for intermediate files (read and write, even at the same time)
1 or 2 HDD as backups of the two above.Today:
Athlon FX 53
Motherboard with just SATA I (150) but with two raid SATA ports (VIA and Promise) plus IDE.
XP pro SP3Tomorrow (I don’t know when):
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?Which hard drives would fit in this scenario?
My considerations and concerns:
1 – SATA III not suitable because it’s not switchable to SATA I. SATA II should
2 – the PC works quite frequently but it’is in the main room of the house so heat and noise are a huge concern. But jerky playback is too…
By now I’m using two Seagate Barracuda 7200.10 80GB in RAID 0 as source and intermediate drive. I would like to keep heat and noise at max as they are today.I read many reviews around the net but, for now, I can’t choose the right one(s).
It seems performance and heat&noise can’t cope together.Does anybody have a first hand experience to share on that?
Thanks for listening.
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To put simply, the cheapest HD’s you want. Sony Vegas could care less which hard drives you have. I wrote an article on this forum, about render speeds, HD speeds, and video acceleration. I found that on average Sony vegas render only uses 2 – 7 mb/s…thats SLOW. Now of course that is at highest quality, Cineform 4k. Now if you are to render some low quality low bit rate, Sony AVC 512k Then your hard drive sppeds will hit 70 Megs a second.
Even Western Digitals Green peace line can handle that rate. Just consider most renders that you would use for a client do not excede 10 megs a second requirment.
Therefore: If heat is an issue just use a green line HD from Seagate0 or WD. If heat and saftey is a concern then use
3 or 4 (1 terrabyte hd’s) and a cheap RAID 5 card. Preferably with 512 megs of cache or more, but it’s not really important.Avoid Hyperthreading, if you are running a I7 processor, it actually reduces performance by 25%
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