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  • Is it Best to Use 1 Hard Drive or 2 Hard Drives with AE and PPro?

    Posted by John Kompa on August 24, 2006 at 4:21 pm

    Okay, my hard drive just crapped out so it’s time to upgrade. I previously had a single 200G hard drive with only 1 partition on it that had Windows XP, all my software, games, media, etc.

    Is it best for me to buy 2 new hard drives…one to install Windows and my software while using the other drive for scratch files, media such as photos and videos, etc? Thoughts?

    Thanks!
    john ‘rekless’ kompa

    Cal Johnson replied 19 years, 8 months ago 5 Members · 4 Replies
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  • Samuel Saturos

    August 24, 2006 at 5:32 pm

    2 HDD in Raid 0.
    The pro is that it merges both drives in one virtual drive and increases the speed.

    The cons if one disk fails, you will lose both drivers data.

    There’s also Raid 5 that have partity capibilities, and if you lose one disk you can recover data. But requires the minimum of 3 HDDs.

  • Jonathan Pitzer

    August 24, 2006 at 6:55 pm

    This also insures that the large size of your video files bogging down your computer. You are not supposed to defrag your video files so this also allows you to defrag your hard drive that the system files run on without damaging the video. RAID 1 will back up the hard drive and alleviate the problem mentioned above in the other thread, however, you would them need a minimum of 4 hard drives. Also, the use of two drives allows for a higher sustained data transfer rate. This makes it to where there are less crashes on long video files due to the reduced chance of underrun errors.

  • Paul Meyers

    August 24, 2006 at 11:21 pm

    What do you mean ‘You are not supposed to defrag your video files’?

  • Cal Johnson

    August 28, 2006 at 5:28 pm

    Let me guess, it was a Maxtor hard drive, right?

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