Hard Drive set up for AVCHD

!TIMMY! · 29 Jul 2009 at 15:19

I am thinking about upgrading my hard drives as I have bought a Panasonic SD100 AVCHD camcorder.

My set up on Intel ICH9R:

2 x 150gb Raptor Raid 0 - OS, Games & Apps
Read Speeds (mb/sec)
Min 90 - Av 130 - Max 160 - Burst 106

4 x 250gb Western Digital Caviar SE16 Raid 0 - Video data & music etc
Read Speeds (mb/sec)
Min 102 - Av 138 - Max 158 - Burst 128

1 x Seagate 1TB 7200.11 (On Jmicron) - Back up for Video data & music etc
Read Speeds (mb/sec)
Min 50 - Av 87 - Max 109 - Burst 96

Would you recomend me changing any drives? The WD 250gb are the oldest. Do I even need to change HD are they limiting me in anyway?

AbsenceJam · 29 Jul 2009 at 15:23

I'm not sure what you want to know. The camera appears to shoot a maximum bitrate of 17Mbit which is 2.1MB/s and stores it to SD. The very fastest and latest Sandisk SD cards read/write at 30MB/s and with most cards you'll get a small fraction of that. When it comes to editing because you're not dealing with raw footage you're fine also.

!TIMMY! · 29 Jul 2009 at 15:40

I am asking if by changing any of my HD's for example replacing the 250gb WD for say 320gb Samsung F1's if I will see any benefit when editing video's or would that just be a waste of my money.

AbsenceJam · 29 Jul 2009 at 15:51

It'd be a waste with that camera. I'd look into consolidating a bit though, your RAID arrays are dated and really unimpressive when you consider that the 7200rpm 7200.12's can do just under 110MB/s average.

rpstewart · 29 Jul 2009 at 16:28

As a general piece of advice when it comes to video editing you generally want the source files on a different disk to the output files. That way you don't end up having the drive heads bouncing all over the place reading and writing to the same disk.