Adding a Second Hard Drive

[chongo]

Hey, I just bought myself a second hard drive (120gb/7200rpm), which is where I am storing my video files, and I've heard conflicting things about how to get the best performance with my video projects (which aren't fancy - deleting commercials, burning to DVDs, etc).

Should my video software be on the same drive as the captured .mpgs? Should I tell my video software to write finished .iso files and such to the same drive as the original .mpg, or to the other drive?

Any advice you have would be great.

[lgh529]

Normally you would want to keep your video drive on a seperate IDE bus (unless the drive is SATA in which case it doesn't matter).

However, this matters most when your capturing more than any thing else. When you are just writing iso files and doing simple video editing it really doesn't matter because those activities are not dependant on the performance of the drive like capturing is.

[wulf109]

Your second HD should be used for data storage,avi files for example.. Make it the D drive. Your programs on the C drive. When your C drive crashes you won't lose your data.

[gmatov]

With 40 gig Primary drive, you have room to store either the caps or the fniished projects on it.

Your program will load into RAM, get raw data from 1 drive, write to the second drive. Ideally, they will be on seperate IDE busses/cables. Just make sure that the drive with the burnable product and the burner itself are on different cables. Not good, there, to take turns transferring data, though with a 2 meg buffer, and BURNProof, probably no problem

If the 40 is partitioned, say 10 gig, 30 gig, if you lose C, format and re-install. If the drive itself dies, well, the new drive, with all your ISOs, or caps, whatever could also die and lose everything there.

Don't worry too much. This is not brain surgery.

Cheers,

George