Hi everyone,
Got an AMD dual core with 4x200GB SATA disks, 1xPATA 200GB, 2GB RAM etc.
Want to build a dedicated video workstation ... for MSP8 with W2K SP4.
I cannot decide on best configuration of disks. Read posts about seperate partitions for swap, a *little* bit about RAID but not much.... need some advice! What do you think about this?
IDE - BOOT only
SATA RAID0 disks1&2 - Part'n1: Applications; Part'n2: Rendered AVIs
SATA RAID0 disks3&4 - Part'n1: Swap; Part'n2: Video projects
I think I need to seperate out Swapfile, Temporary (working files), finally rendered files and original project files.... but not really sure....
Anyone have any experience running RAID0? (disabled write caching + Native CQ etc).
thanks everyone!
hardware quandry... RAID, swapfiles, tempfiles... thoughts?
Hi Octavious,
I have a 4x250Gb SATA RAID0 array. I use a hardware RAID controller that is on my motherboard (Intel). I have heard that software RAID can affect processor performance. I use my RAID partition for all files, video, word, pictures, everything. I also use a directory on the root as a scratch folder. I run the OS and applications off a PATA.
So far have never had a problem, and keeping the OS and content on seperate drives makes it very easy to do a reinstall (which tends to be 2 or 3 times a year as I use this computer for other stuff as well as video editing and it becomes 'gummed' up after a while)
On my next rig, I will use one SATA for OS and apps, 2X320Gb SATA RAID0 for Video capture and edit, and have a Network Storage 4X320Gb RAID5 for all archive and other files. The RAID0 gives me the speed, the RAID5 gives me redundancy. At the moment, if one of my drives were to fail... well I don't want to think about it.
So your idea sounds good, very well organised.
Cheers.
I have a 4x250Gb SATA RAID0 array. I use a hardware RAID controller that is on my motherboard (Intel). I have heard that software RAID can affect processor performance. I use my RAID partition for all files, video, word, pictures, everything. I also use a directory on the root as a scratch folder. I run the OS and applications off a PATA.
So far have never had a problem, and keeping the OS and content on seperate drives makes it very easy to do a reinstall (which tends to be 2 or 3 times a year as I use this computer for other stuff as well as video editing and it becomes 'gummed' up after a while)
On my next rig, I will use one SATA for OS and apps, 2X320Gb SATA RAID0 for Video capture and edit, and have a Network Storage 4X320Gb RAID5 for all archive and other files. The RAID0 gives me the speed, the RAID5 gives me redundancy. At the moment, if one of my drives were to fail... well I don't want to think about it.
So your idea sounds good, very well organised.
Cheers.
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Best way to setup a multi-boot system
Another tip is to create a permanent Paging File (Swap File)
There is an interesting guide here
This guide also describes how to optimize the permanent paging file.
Another interesting article is to
Create a video editing profile