hdd,ssd or scsi
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If you are video editing, space is the primary concern.
SSDs are too expensive for this and SCSI are not much better.
May i ask why you have even mentioned SCSI drives?
I wouldn't bother with SCSI/SAS drives for video editing, they're better suited to high queue depth random I/O situations in servers rather than the sequential I/O, single user ops that you'll get with video editing. For sequential I/O the current crop of SATA drives are just as good.
The one thing that kills video editing is I/O contention so I'd be looking at having multiple spindles/arrays with the source material on one and the output on another. Probably a couple of 2 disk RAID0 arrays to start with as well as an external backup.
By all means stick in an SSD for the OS but, as aproctor says, they're not big enough/cheap enough to use as bulk storage.
The one thing that kills video editing is I/O contention so I'd be looking at having multiple spindles/arrays with the source material on one and the output on another. Probably a couple of 2 disk RAID0 arrays to start with as well as an external backup.
By all means stick in an SSD for the OS but, as aproctor says, they're not big enough/cheap enough to use as bulk storage.
LOL I got a pretty snazzy SCSI Raid card that I picked up for a song a year or so ago...
SCSI Drives are still kept too expensive, and so, I bought myself a handful of IDE-SCSI Adapters and now my youngest sons PC is running off it with 4 IDE Drives pretending to be SCSI and its just as quick I recon.
I did use it for a while as a file server with 2x500GB and I did add a further pair of 500GB drives but I shafted it up and lost a load of data but I decided it was a waste of time for my needs and so I just went with IDE and now my server is simply a NAS box. Job done.
SCSI Drives are still kept too expensive, and so, I bought myself a handful of IDE-SCSI Adapters and now my youngest sons PC is running off it with 4 IDE Drives pretending to be SCSI and its just as quick I recon.
I did use it for a while as a file server with 2x500GB and I did add a further pair of 500GB drives but I shafted it up and lost a load of data but I decided it was a waste of time for my needs and so I just went with IDE and now my server is simply a NAS box. Job done.