Raptor 10'000 RPM in Firewire, USB2 and SATA (anyone tested?)

Psykopulp · Post by **Psykopulp** » Sun Aug 21, 2005 17:04

Hi,

I'm using my 5400 rpm 30 gigs laptop HD and a ATA 100 USB2 160 gigs. The result is barely efficient when mixing 2 video layers + 1 flash layer.
(I'm running a 2.2 P4M).

My question is does anyone use a Raptor 10'000RPM HD with a USB2 or Firewire interface ? and is their any noticable improvement with SATA (used as an external HD of course ^__^') ?

I'm about to buy a new laptop mainly for Resolume but i can't decide which CPU using. After reading all the posts i guess a 3,2 P4 would be the best, but my only hope would be a Dual Core optimised Resolume

I don't see why 64bit should be a rush as it wouldn't be as signicative as dual core in term of performance.

Well hope you guys can point me some benchmark of your external HD's, because in tower pc's Raptors is nice

VJzoo · Post by **VJzoo** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 11:46

we've jut got a P.M. 1.6ghz with 512mb ram and an ati 9600, when i play back 2 layers with 3 effects off an external (250gb, 7200rpm), the video gets a bit choppy but on our p4 3ghz hyperthreded (not supported) lappy with a 1gb of ram with the same external via usb and an ati 9600, it plays 3 layers (flash or video) with 3 effects fine, all the clips are 400x300 ligos indeo xp 5.2.

not sure how much ram you've got but that can help alot also mabe running the HD though firewire would help (i cant because my firewire seems to drop out from time to time).

hope that helps

continuity-B · Post by **continuity-B** » Mon Aug 22, 2005 11:52

Stick with firewire over usb2 as firewire has a stable transfer rate, however SATA should in theory be the business, even with 7200rpms. I'm guessing your other usb drive is also 5400rpm, if so this is the main reason for bad performance.

Get a fast drive (never less than 7200rpm) and connect it fast as you can with nothing but clips on it. Golden rule.

As for processors, I'm STILL on an athlon2000+ so as long as it beats that (not hard) resolume should run fine dual core or not. That said you can often turn HT off in bios.