Hard drive setup for video editing

ringo747

ringo747

ringo747

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Just wondering what is the best setup for disks for video editing.

Is it best capturing to a non-OS drive and then render to a separate non-OS drive?

At the moment I just have been capturing to the OS disk but apparently this isn't great and can cause dropped frames during capture. I take it it's best to use the higher speed WD Blacks or Samsung F3s as opposed to the greens?
 
Spreading I/O is always good as a drive can only do one thing at a time so your OS disk won't be very responsive if you're writing to it. What bitrates and file sizes are we talking here though?
 
It'll be about 25Mb, are you editing and rendering in HDV or using an intermediate format?

Your disk setup is really up to you. I like to make sure no disk is trying to do two things at once myself so I'd have the OS+Programs, another disk for capture/storage and another one or two for scratch and render. 5400rpm drives aren't too slow, 7200rpm ones are just quicker so long operations will be a good bit faster.
 
I had looked at using NeoScene but I don't think it's worthwhile really as my rig seems to cope fine with editing the captured .mt2s files.

What way does the stratch drive work in video editing speak? I just do it for a hobby really so not needing the top setup. Something like this be good?

Disk 1: OS
Disk 2: Capture and footage storage
Disk 3: Render and completed project storage

Probably would look at the 1.5TB Samsung F3s
 
Scratch is a temporary pagefile sort of thing for when you're doing something that requires more memory than you have.

That'll be fine, the 1.5 and 2TB F3's are the EcoGreen 5400rpm though.
 
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