Best setup for Video Editing/Rendering

[Mint_Sauce]

I'm building a friends system and the hard drives are a big part of getting his system right.

In order to get his machine throwing data around as fast as possible I was thinking something along the lines of:

1 x SSD for OS
5 x 1TB in Raid 5 with Areca ARC-1680 iX-12 or Perc 5i controller
2 x SSD in Raid 0 for scratch

Could this be improved on for HD video editing/rendering?

TIA

 

[Mint_Sauce]

Thanks AbsenceJam, I will be going for 12gb ram in the build along with an i7 processor.

He does back up all his projects/files to external hard drives so the raid 5 is for just day to day useage with that little extra to help in case of a failed drive. It would also I think be fast enough for storing the files and being working space whilst the 2xSSDs for scratch would (I think) be good for when he does a live preview (on the fly render basically).

I've done some reading on how Premier likes to work and I think that setup is basically exactly what it would like. Being new to SSDs is there any reasons why going for standard mechanical 7200 drives be better for scratch?

 

[Mint_Sauce]

Just looked quickly at Fibrechannel DAS and it looks like a great idea, maybe a much better alternative to having all those drives in the PC and having the RAID card in there as well. I'll look in to it further. Perhaps, just having the OS drive in the PC, then using the DAS (if it can be configured as two seperate arrays) for the storage and scratch.