RAID AND PRORES 422 Oh not again…

[Jason Laville]

Okay, so am abouts to buy this:

3TB Pack – 3 x IBM (Hitachi) Deskstar 7K1000 SATAII 1TB 32MB

also will up grade graphic card to:

ATI Radeon HD 3870 512MB Graphics Card

I have 4gb of ram, (not 2gb as I thought) do you think I need any more ram to run the 3 extra drives at raid 0?

Really only using this mac for final cut pro, also the raid 0 will this be where I set my scratch disk at from now on in fcp?

These are the last questions I swear lol

[Jeremy Garchow]

4 gigs of ram should be fine. 8 would be better, but stick with 4 for now.

[jason laville] “Really only using this mac for final cut pro, also the raid 0 will this be where I set my scratch disk at from now on in fcp? “

That is correct.

[Jason Laville]

sweet I now know everything i needed to know big thanks to you guys, brilliant site… now im ready to crash and burn…. not literally though lol

[Kai Cheong]

Hi David, contrary to most information I’ve read, which says your media drives should never be formatted ‘journaled’ [similar recommendations on the AJA website], you recommend formatting the drives as ‘journaled’ for Jason.

Just so no media get hurt in the process, is it essentially a ‘yay’ or ‘nay’ on journaling for media drives?

Kai
FCP Editor / Producer with Intuitive Films
—
Now ‘LIVE’! Check Out The Intuitive Films Blog @ https://intuitive-films.blogspot.com
At Intuitive Films, We Create: TV Commercials, Documentaries, Corporate Videos and Feature Films
Visit us @ https://www.intuitivefilms.com
—
MacBook Pro 2.4GHz | 4GB RAM | FCP 5.1.4 | Mac OS X 10.5.2

[David Roth weiss]

The consensus of opinion is now that it’s a toss-up. Computers are fast enough now that journaling is probably not the processing burden that it was just a few years back. While I format my own media drives unjournaled, I’m obviously no longer a stickler on the subject.

David Roth Weiss
Director/Editor
David Weiss Productions, Inc.
Los Angeles

POST-PRODUCTION WITHOUT THE USUAL INSANITY ™

A forum host of Creative COW’s Apple Final Cut Pro, Business & Marketing, and Indie Film & Documentary forums.

[Kai Cheong]

Thanks, appreciate the insight – one can’t be a stubborn stick in the mud if they wanna keep up with the times eh ;]

Kai
FCP Editor / Producer with Intuitive Films
—
Now ‘LIVE’! Check Out The Intuitive Films Blog @ https://intuitive-films.blogspot.com
At Intuitive Films, We Create: TV Commercials, Documentaries, Corporate Videos and Feature Films
Visit us @ https://www.intuitivefilms.com
—
MacBook Pro 2.4GHz | 4GB RAM | FCP 5.1.4 | Mac OS X 10.5.2

[Peter Dunphy]

ha ha excellent post :o)