VelociRaptor advantages in Video Editing / Authoring

[jaffacaique]

Hi

Is anyone using the VelociRaptor hard drive?

Are there any real advantages in Video Editing, Rendering etc. I am looking at purchasing one soon and would be interested in existing users experiences and feedback on whether the extra speed does actually make a genuine noticeable difference to reduce output times compared to other Hard Drives you have used. My existing Hardrive a 120 GB Sata 1 Drive is quite old now I was looking at replacing it with the 300GB VelociRaptor.

Thanks in advance to anyone who takes the time to respond

[guns1inger]

You would probably get greater benefit buying two cheaper 7200 rpm drives and working drive to drive than reading and writing to a single drive. It kind of negates most of the speed advantages if you have the heads bouncing back and forth over the same platters for both operations.

[jagabo]

Unless you are working with uncompressed video the drive speed is immaterial.

[Cornucopia]

And if you are doing uncompressed (or HD, or HD uncompressed, etc), a RAID solution would probably be better suited...

Scott

[redwudz]

One smaller HDD for the boot and programs, and two larger HDDs for editing and archiving works best for me. For encoding, HDD speed doesn't really matter. For editing, two HDDs seems to work the best. Using the boot drive for video is not a good idea, no matter how fast it is. The OS continually accesses it, slowing down video operations.

There may be some advantages to a small, fast boot drive. Mainly in loading the OS and accessing the installed programs. But no real advantage for video use. JMO.

[Seeker47]

You would probably get greater benefit buying two cheaper 7200 rpm drives and working drive to drive than reading and writing to a single drive. It kind of negates most of the speed advantages if you have the heads bouncing back and forth over the same platters for both operations.

If Jagabo is right, it doesn't matter. But what about a pair of Raptors, or a Raptor boot drive + a 7200 data drive ?

I used 10K SCSI for some years and really liked them. At that time, I used to hear a lot about thermal recalibration and AV-rated drives. (Perhaps that is not much of a concern anymore.) The 15K SCSI drives were the fastest thing out there, and maybe still are, but the loud, high-pitched whine would soon get on your nerves. Going that route was a lot more expensive, more technical to run, and the drive capacities lagged substantially behind what is commonplace today. The drive reliability on good SCSI also used to be way higher than anything else. But I wasn't doing anything with video back when I had SCSI. And I don't know if it has any relevance today.

[jagabo]

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3291&p=8

Their test drive has some firmware issues which were alter cleared up:

http://www.anandtech.com/storage/showdoc.aspx?i=3303

And:

http://www.tomshardware.com/reviews/HDD-SATA-VelociRaptor,1914.html

[INFRATOM]

A velociRaptor if you don't mind the price is a must have, it is like scsi can run all the time not mentioning the speed. Comparing to raid array one HD would do the job of array with 3 drives using less power, less heat, less noise and it is safer than raid 0, 5 year warranty too. Overall the only downside is the price. Editing and rendering is mostly calculation meaning CPU intensive investing in CPU and RAM is better but for capturing that is HD intensive Raptor is good. While editing Plus effects if you review in real time you need CPU extreme edition and 2 Raptors in raid configuration. The best rule for buying computers and electronics is to buy more than you need otherwise you have to keep updating which cost more.