2 drives: OS on RAID-0 or OS on ATA Drive ?

[lrosado]

Should I use my 70gig S-ATA RAID-0 for capturing and editing with my os on my 80gig ATA drive or should I install my os to the RAID-0 and continue to capture and edit video on my ATA drive?

[Angelus]

I think its a matter of what you want more...SATA provides faster disk writing (starting at 150 MB/s). But I have 240 GB SATA drives with my OS on it and it boots up FAST (7,200 RPM). I would install the OS onto the RAID and leave the ATA to the video.

[lrosado]

thanks for your input

[Angelus]

Just another thought I had too, encoding is more memory and CPU intensive than it is HD intensive (I think) so that's another reason to use the regular ide for encoding and sata for the OS.

[TotalChaos]

Personaly I would do it all on the RAID 0. I have nearly the same setup you have. (see "what system do you have" thread) minus the 80GB. I have a dedicated server that holds all my media. (RAID 5 120GB X 4.) Use the slower 80GB for storage. (which is not much slower) Gotta love all the ( ) lol.

[jxsam1@yahoo.com]

The ideal setup for video editing is to use the RAID 0 with your 2 SATA drives for video swapping and editing. The other drive should be used for OS and storage of more imporant files.

It makes more sense to use the two faster drives to store the avi or video files for quick cuts and edits. However, once you are done with each cut, move the output of your projects to your other drive for safe storage. In a RAID 0 configuration, if one of your drive fails, you will lose everything stored in that virtual drive.

From a video editor to another, always save your project files and final cuts in your slower but more secure drive.

Again, don't load your OS and don't use that virtual drive to store any important data as RAID-0 is a risky configuration and if one of your drives fail, all your data in the setup will be lost and if you have your OS installed on it, you will have to rebuild your machine.

As TotalChaos mentioned, use a slower but more secure drive to store your project files and final edits as that is more reliable.

Once you've made your final cuts, the storage speed is not tha big of a deal as the CPU will be your bottleneck with the encoding process which I always save to my slower drives.

The ideal would be to have RAID 0 + 1 which is 2 drives for striping and one for mirroring. Another option is to have the 2 faster on RAID 0 for the video editing then 1 large drive for storage and safe keeping and another smaller drive for your OS and all your apps. If your system goes out you can isolate your problem to each individual component.

Hope this makes sense...