Suggestions on Harddrive configuration for Video Editing PC

[homebrewdude]

This is what I have...
AMD 6400+ 64bit CPU
4gig ram
SATA 3.0 card(s)
Running XP Pro - trying XP64 (will probably buy the XP64)

I have various 300 to 500gb harddrives I use for storage and back-ups.
Internal and external - these are already set and fine.

But for my OS and programs..
3 74gig raptor drives.

1 74gig for OS and probably dual boot XP Pro
2 74gig in raid config for speed for apps and a working video editing
section
I would mirror the raid over to my back-up drives in case the raid fails.

Is it good to have the video editing app and the video being edited on
the same raid drive?
Or would it be better for the OS and apps to be on one drive and the
video being edited on the 2 raid drives??

any suggestions?

 

[Matt]

This is what I have...
AMD 6400+ 64bit CPU
4gig ram
SATA 3.0 card(s)
Running XP Pro - trying XP64 (will probably buy the XP64)

I have various 300 to 500gb harddrives I use for storage and back-ups.
Internal and external - these are already set and fine.

But for my OS and programs..
3 74gig raptor drives.

1 74gig for OS and probably dual boot XP Pro
2 74gig in raid config for speed for apps and a working video editing
section
I would mirror the raid over to my back-up drives in case the raid fails.

Is it good to have the video editing app and the video being edited on the
same raid drive?
Or would it be better for the OS and apps to be on one drive and the video
being edited on the 2 raid drives??

any suggestions?

Never put your footage on the same drive as the software, put it on the raid
and put the software on the 74 gig.

 

[homebrewdude]

So I would have the OS and the video software on one drive
My editing data on the second drive, which is raid?

 

[Matt]

So I would have the OS and the video software on one drive
My editing data on the second drive, which is raid?

yes.. that should do it!

 

[Johan N]

So I would have the OS and the video software on one drive
My editing data on the second drive, which is raid?

ageee 110% and you can consider:
- striping the two partitions on those two 74GB drives
- have two other partitions on that drive ready for interim backups of
current state.

Questions:
- How important is the data
- If semi-pro or more important - Considered a real RAID controller