Raid 0

[richardt]

Having a basic understand of a pc using Raid configuration I was wondering if it is beneficial to video editing. I have always understood that a dedicated hard drive was needed to capture video footage.

[Cobra]

I believe you can capture to a RAID array, but I am unsure as to the benefit of doing so. Are you really going to need to write more than 25-30MB/sec to capture video?

I am no expert on video capture though...

[BJ_M]

you only need raid 0 if you are capturing uncompressed video or hd ...

some high end cards require this (and scsi only) //

for dv or capture to mpeg and that sort of thing -- you dont need raid 0 , but a 7200 or higher drive is nice thing ..

[rallynavvie]

Agreed, the two drives singly will work more to your advantage when you're encoding. Read from one and write to the other rather than read/write to the same drive, even a RAID volume. RAID 0 increased data bandwidth to not quite double but it doesn't increase any seek/access times.