What is the best way to partition HDD For Video Editing?

Antineo69 · 9 Jun 2011 at 00:23

Hello!

just finish building my sister PC for video Editing

-Intel Core i5-2500K 3.30GHz (Sandybridge)
-Asus P8P67-M PRO Intel P67 (Socket 1155) DDR3 MicroATX Motherboard
-Microsoft Windows 7 Home Premium SP1 64-Bit
-Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB
-OCZ StealthXStream 2 500W
-Corsair 8GB
-Coolermaster Elite 342 Case
-Sony Optiarc Dvd

so the question is What is the best way to partition HDD For Video Editing?

HDD she got is Samsung SpinPoint F3 1TB and also using her old one out of the orignal Pc that only 60GB

Any advice will great.

thanks
Nick

AbsenceJam · 9 Jun 2011 at 02:01

Don't partition, you'll only slow things down. For video editing more disks speeds things up and if all she has are two drives and she's editing and storing video then you should sort her out with some sort of backup. An old 60GB drive will fail at some point.

jbloggs · 9 Jun 2011 at 09:53

I would be inclined to buy an SSD for the OS and use the Spinpoint F3 for storage...or put the OS on a RAID0 volume and then use more HDDs for storage and backups.

lurkio · 9 Jun 2011 at 14:10

2 hard drives , best solution
drive 1 has raw video capture footage , drive 2 used to render to when you want to output video

Antineo69 · 9 Jun 2011 at 18:32

cheers for the reply guys.
look like she going have to stick with one HDD

Thanks U
Nick