Video Rendering

[tapal]

I wnated to know is it necessary to have a separate HDD for rendering video for DVD burning. What are the benifits of 2 HDDs for DVD authorizing

[redwudz]

It's not 'necessary', but it's a lot more efficient to have more than one hard drive for moving files back and forth while encoding or editing. Most times with video, you need the extra space anyway.

If you are capturing, then a separate drive is even more important. The boot drive is used by the OS quite often, and those accesses slow down some operations.

I use three hard drives most times, the boot, an edit drive and one for archiving. But at least two are sufficient.

[guns1inger]

It is not necessary, however there are speed advantages when streaming from one physical HDD to another. There are also advantages to using separate physical HDDs for the operating system and software, and video capture. This can prevent dropped frames and other issues.

I have the OS and software on one drive, and have two other physical drives for video work, and then I have external drives for all the other data that one collects in this business. At the moment I have 6 HDDs in use.

[TimA-C]

If you're using IDE (P-ATA now) drives then try to get your two drives on different controllers i.e on different ribbon cables. If you're using S-ATA drives then each drive has its own controller anyway. Like guns1inger, I too have one drive (IDE) for Windows, most programs, and games etc. and then two S-ATA drives for video work and always try to read off one drive, process, and then write to the other drive. Unlike guns1inger I only have 4 drives in my system at any one time (one SATA in a removable caddy for backups) :P

[Bjs]

The fact you don't need to over use defrag on main system drive.

1x main os drive, 1 x video ... everything else goes to externals.