Hard Drive Configuration

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VJ Nexus
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Hard Drive Configuration

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I am running 3 hard drives in my resolume computer, and was wondering what the best configuration for them would be. I do have a raid controller, and was wondering if striping them on that would be faster than a standard eide connection. My motherboard also has 2 SATA controllers. I was thinking about getting a 10,000 rpm raptor ATA150 hd and trying resolume on that.

Basically I've been using resolume to run Dv .avi files, uncompressed dv format to get a better picture quality. My computer handles this fine, until there are 3 layers running all with effects. That's a lot of harddrive spinning. I even try to stplit the clips between harddrives. I was wondering if a RAID configuration would give me faster streams, or if anyone had tweaked harddrive configurations for resolume performance??


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[Edited on 10-11-2004 by NexusIntent]

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Post by bart »

Yes using RAID 0 (striping) would improve the performance a bit especially when you are using big files. And those 10,000 rpm raptors are hella fast! and not so expencive.

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hella?

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hella... you in CA... we should meet up and babble the vj thing....

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