What’s a good RAID setup?

[John Magee]

Thanks all for your help re the Raid issue.

[Rob Mack]

Well, actually, I have my system disc in an array but it’s mirrored. Yes, I don’t like the idea of drive failure.

A controller card can make a big difference but the cheaper ones don’t take any load off the CPU so it’s best to do a bit of research before chosing a card.

Rob Mack

[Rob Mack]

We were just discussing this sort of thing on the Vegas forum. A user tried turning HT off and, while he got higher CPU usage, it doesn’t seem like it improved his playback performance.

Rob Mack

[Doug Graham]

Agreed. My last controller was an IDE model from 3COM. Expensive, but very good.

Regards,
Doug Graham

[Chris Young]

John ~

Two cents worth here. Look under Options/Preferences/Video and see if your Dynamic RAM Preview is set high. This needs to be set high if you are using ‘Shift B’ to build ram previews of any length but for normal editing and the smoothest playback on your preview it’s best set to 16MB. Setting ram preview to say 1GB will tax the page file and it will grow and grow. Best also to set the ram preview to 16MB when rendering for the same reason. Also on some systems I have seen better playback with the preview set to ‘Preview Full’ than ‘Preview Auto’ which seems to be the default setting. Don’t ask me why but that’s the way it seems to be.

Chris Young
Sydney