Hard drive opinion question.

[tito13kfm]

I am currently running low on space for my captures/edits/encodes and I'm just gonna go get more hd's.

Now I need to know.. what would you do.

For approximately the same cost (after rebates of course) I can get either 2 160GB Wester Digital WD1600JBRTL UATA/100 8mb buffer. Or 1 200GB Maxtor 200GB L01M200 SATA/150. My Motherboard has an onboard SATA adapter and a RAID controller card.

So choose from the options above.

[Craig Tucker]

I would get the 2 160GB WD, but not bother configuring them for RAID.
2 Reasons for this, I think WD make better drives than Maxtor and you get an extra 120GB storage.

[fmctm1sw]

Well, I can capture D1 resolution with no dropped frames on my 80GB ATA-100 drive right now. For what I use my computer for (video capture/conversion), that's really all I need. I'd go with the added room too.

[tito13kfm]

dropped frames isn't even a concern to me.. most of my stuff is DV transfers anyways.. I was more interested in the performance issue with stuff like editing and encoding.

And I was already leaning towards bigger +RAID0 before I started this.. but 2 people have agreed with me so I guess it's settled.. now to wait till my commission check comes in.

[rallynavvie]

I'd get the 2x 160GB drives and leave the without RAID. I had my 2x 80GB drives in RAID 0 and never really saw much of an improvement. I like having seperate drives now over the large single drive; it's easier to catalog stuff under a different drive letter than using a folder structure, and I've got up to 9 hard drives connected to one computer at any given time.

ATA drives will do just fine for video work. I only use my fast SCSI drives for editing bits in After Effects mostly, seems they allow me to jump all over the timeline faster than my ATA drives do.

[Faustus]

I suggest one drive between 80 and 120GB with 8mb of cache as a boot and application drive. Then a second big drive of whatever stats are cheap for a data drive. This way if something happens you can format without losing data. Couple that with a DVD Burner and copy of NOrton Ghost 2003 and you can make a restore disc for your PC.