Selected HardDrive for Videos

Teriander · Post by **Teriander** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 21:33

Which harddrive would be better to store your videos?

C: ? With the default location of the installed app Resolume (and OS).
D: ? An internal Hard Drive that doesn't have Resolume app.
E: ? An EXTERNAL hard Drive connected via USB2 or Firewire.

Where would you store your videos when using Resolume???

MtB · Post by **MtB** » Tue Mar 29, 2005 21:55

sata drives are good enough to handle tha data needs in resolume. if you can, buy an raid controler, plug 4 sata hdd's and work as raid 5

to install the os and app I prefer sata system disk
here is a simple configuration for an highg performance but big system

2 x sata hdd (1 for os and 1 for swap)
4 x sata hdd connected to an extra raid control card and configured as raid level 5
system ram: if possible 2gb of. ddr2 533

such a system can handle, uncompressed video i/o without a doubt.
2 system disks because
nature of the windows requires a swap file and upon my own experiences and tests, if you use the swap file on the physical disk that u installed the os, performance reduces...

firewire is better against usb2.0 due it is nature...

need extra info,
just drop a note here regarding ur question...

hope that helps

bw.

t.

VJ555 · Post by **VJ555** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 01:16

To be honest, I have everything on one Laptop on one drive. Two things I found, external USB HDD, Reso 1.5 used to "lose contact" with it and link to wrong files, never tried it again so i don't know if 2.0 and onwards better. BEst upgrade I did was to change out standard HDD in lappie for a 7200rpm, amazing difference...

This probably didn't help at all eh......

MtB · Post by **MtB** » Wed Mar 30, 2005 22:35

check firewire based external hdd solutions...
they are better...

bw

t.

Teriander · Post by **Teriander** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 04:46

Thanks for the feedback guys! My new laptop (just came in yesterday) has USB 2.0 and 2 sata harddrives. Unfortunately right now it looks like the harddrives are being read as one harddrive in "My Computer" is that normal? I guess I'll have to call Alienware and see whats going on with this...

MtB · Post by **MtB** » Thu Mar 31, 2005 10:11

they possibly configured as raid 0...
you can manually turn them into sepperate drives but, you have to re-install the os and softwarez

bw

t.

Teriander · Post by **Teriander** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 02:56

Yea, I talked to them about it, they said it is set up for RAID 0 which should make my apps faster, so Im going to keep it this way. Unfortunately my laptop doesn't have Firewire...

MtB · Post by **MtB** » Mon Apr 04, 2005 14:52

there are pcmcia based firewire controlers.
try to find, iee1394b which also knowns as firewire 800
it has 800mbit bandwith and there are 1394b supported external hdd devices available at the market today...

hope dat helpz...

ps: I dont agree with them about the raid 0 on os installed partition. due to the nature of the windows, it uses huge amount of swap file r/w operation, it also acesses the windows system files so, if they are on the same physical partition performance reduces.

my suggestion is; delete the raid, install the os to a physical disk, set the swap to the other disk and use firewire external storage for the media files etc.

in my test config, performance increses something arround %15 - %20 due to the nature of the operation.

I dont tested or have any information about how resolume reacts with windows core so, before doing something like this, I advise you to talk with bart about my experience...

bw.