Hard Drive Setup for New Build

[urbanokt]

hello. new here. great site. i have already found answers to lots of unanswered questions. as to this post, i have a question on hard drive setup for my new build. i will be using adobe premiere 6.5. i will primarily be capturing video from my sony digital8 camera and playing with that film in premiere.

from what i have gathered here is what i was thinking. a 60gb or 80gb hard drive for windows xp pro and all other programs, apps. a larger, maybe 250 or 300 gig drive for capturing and an equally large drive for rendering. does that sound about right?

also, i will be using photoshop 7 to do some photo editing. would it be smart to use those same drives in kind of the same way? one drive for loading all of the photos and then one drive for finished products?

i am pretty sure i got this right. i guess i just want a little affirmation. also if anyone is using a setup like this one, how you have fared with such a setup. thank you kindly.

[rallynavvie]

If you're going to go the double storage drive route with two large-capacity drives for video work and a dedicated OS drive then I'd highly recommend getting one of the 74GB SATA Raptors. Most new systems have SATA onboard now. The faster access speeds from that breathe a little more life into XP and some of your applications. Then you can use the two larger drives to work files back and forth.

However you really should be able to get away with the two large drives alone and put the OS on one just to save a little cash for some other hardware, like a SCSI HBA

[montburnsy]

I have 2 120gb WD 7,500rpm drives that just do the work i require.
if i don't keep on top of things and get the file from tape directly onto dvd, then i find myself wanting more room. So if you decide you're going to be leaving alot of movie file on the computer, then go large with the drives.
I run 14gb for OS, (operating system/windows XP) ,
96gb for storage of captured movie files,
and 111gb (removable) for finished movies, photo files etc.

Just remember, you can never have too much space, but you can have too little at times?
hope this helped.