Premiere Pro advice

[Shawn Miller]

This all looks decent to start. Personally, I would opt for a RAID array for the system drive, 2 drives in a RAID 0 configuration for speed (and a backup image of that array, updated weekly), or even better, 4 drives in a RAID 10 configuration for speed + redundancy. I would also add a second RAID 0 array (internal or external) for a fast work drive.

Shawn

[Alex Gerulaitis]

[Alex Gerulaitis] “I’ll put together a public shopping card on Amazon or Newegg and share it here.”

It took way longer than I anticipated.

Here is the public wishlist:

https://secure.newegg.com/WishList/PublicWishDetail.aspx?WishListNumber=14301371

With i7-2600K, 16GB RAM, GTX570, 1.5TB boot and 4TB RAID0 media volumes, Win7 Pro 64, it comes out to $1,546.85 before you add monitor(s). Did I forget anything? If it were up to you, what changes would you make to it?

Alex (DV411)

[Phil Lister]

Thanks for all the help! Alex man…you rock! Thanks so much!

Phil

Phil Lister

[Adrian Tecson]

I agree with Shawn here. Don’t forget your storage subsystem. Most top end motherboard come with a built in RAID card. It would be best if you could get 3 x 1TB or 2TB drives and do a 3way stripe. That will prepare you for any footage that will come your way, including Uncompressed HD files.

http://www.undergroundlogic.com

[Alex Gerulaitis]

[Adrian Tecson] “Most top end motherboard come with a built in RAID card. It would be best if you could get 3 x 1TB or 2TB drives and do a 3way stripe.”

Those stripe sets often break when upgrading the motherboard, and it’s thus recommended to stripe media volumes using the OS. The computational and memory overhead is negligible.

Onboard RAID cards make sense for RAID1 boot volumes; for small RAID0 sets (up to 4 drives), OS striping is often the best.

Alex (DV411)

[Alex Gerulaitis]

[Tim Kolb] “I do not know configurations vs pricing as well as Alex.

I’m kind of a post guy who knows enough to be dangerous with hardware. I have other people build machines for me…I haven’t had one built for some time…I am very overdue for an update myself.”

Thank you for the nod Tim. Does it make sense to open a new thread and narrow down the best choices for the upgrade?

Alex (DV411)

[Tim Kolb]

Maybe it would be a good topic for a short article here on the Cow?

In the current climate, I can’t imagine that the interest would not be heavy…

I don’t know, I guess that would be something that Tim or Ron would have to make a call on.

TimK,
Director, Consultant
Kolb Productions,

Adobe Certified Instructor

[Alex Gerulaitis]

[Tim Kolb] “Maybe it would be a good topic for a short article here on the Cow?”

It’s certainly a recurring topic, “optimal components and configurations for a CS5.x optimized system on a given budget”. I think it’s a good idea to figure out the best format and maintain a few well-written FAQs with the input of fellow cows. E.g. Videoguys’ DIY config and pages are simply awesome – yet they don’t cover all the choices such as dual socket and tier 1 systems, and we could certainly cover that.

Alex (DV411)

[Adrian Tecson]

Ah thanks for the tip! I havent really done a side by side test on the HW[from onboard] vs SW raid. I’ll try that next time.

Adrian Tecson
Director for Post-Production
Underground Logic
http://www.undergroundlogic.com

[Phil Lister]

I would just like to thank everyone, especially Alex, who gave me some great advice! I now have an all new powerhouse PC for HD editing, and while I’m not up to CS5, I am using CS4 and love it!

Thanks to you all for your help and advice!!!!!! Creative Cow rocks!!

Phil

Phil Lister