Building New Computer system

[VideoTechMan]

Hey all, pretty soon I am planning to work on building a better computer system for my video needs....I have the MSI 865PE Neo2-LS i865PE 800FSB motherboard and the case, but still have alot of other components to go before I can get it completed. My question is....can you use the SATA hard drives with the normal IDE hard drives? Since the price of the SATA drives arent that bad, I thought of getting one also to add to the existing 2 drives for video processing. As fast as these drives are i figure it would be a good alternative to the SCSI drives which are too expensive, and good chance they wont drop frames. Id figure when i get my tax check i can start working on getting the other components. Im also planning to go with a gig of RAM also, is there any advantage to dual-channel memory? Any help would be appreciated.

VTM

[Ripper2860]

You can use ATA Parallel drives on Serial ATA controllers, but you will need something like this ...

http://www.siig.com/product.asp?partnum=SC-SATA12&category=Storage%20Solutions

Here's one at NewEgg: http://www.newegg.com/app/ViewProductDesc.asp?description=13-999-704&depa=1

[phonomas]

I've got a Promise (SuperTrak) 6-channel ATA Raid controller. That's right, up to 6 drives! Of course, one must be a swap drive. Still 600+ Gb of partition space!! Using the 7200 rpm (or higher?) IDE drives currently available (don't forget 8mb cache or better) - you can have a relatively cheap array up in a matter of months. I would recommend Promise - however watch out if you use linux. These (Promise) controllers aren't very friendly with some linux dist. Good luck!

[VideoTechMan]

I've got a Promise (SuperTrak) 6-channel ATA Raid controller. That's right, up to 6 drives! Of course, one must be a swap drive. Still 600+ Gb of partition space!! Using the 7200 rpm (or higher?) IDE drives currently available (don't forget 8mb cache or better) - you can have a relatively cheap array up in a matter of months. I would recommend Promise - however watch out if you use linux. These (Promise) controllers aren't very friendly with some linux dist. Good luck!

Ive heard that Promise had some good products. And yes, I only use the 7200RPM drives since they are faster than the older 5400 models. And im not familiar with Linux, so I wont have that problem to worry about..lol. Wow, with 600+GB of video, you could run a 24 hour TV program right on your computer! 8)

VTM

[phonomas]

It's sweet! Just make sure you use NFTS (XP) so you won't be limited by that whole FAT (4Gb) file size limitations. Plenty space for any capturing scenario. Now I just need a good camera with fireware capabilities! Ciao!!