Raid striping and avi capturing?

[Mr. Twister]

I had an AMD/Asus setup utilizing a Promise RAID controller and striping with 2 dedicated DDR's for video work. I had terrible results with capturing avi at many different settings. I am building a new Intel based system that has available Highpoint RAID and was wondering if striping is worth it. Or is it best to stick with the standard ATA/IDE config.
Do people find performance benefits with striping? tia!

[sammie]

I started using a Promise RAID setup and it was a Godsend. My dropped frames fell to nothing. But I use a plain vanilla Intel 850 based motherboard and I've noticed I don't seem to have a lot of the problems like this. It does seem quite a lot of others are having the probelm you described and if you do a search there are better technical explainations than I can provide already posted.

[Mr. Twister]

Yes, after reading thru many of the posts on this topic there is no general consensus. I guess the only thing to do is try both ways and see what works best on my setup. Thanks

[The village idiot]

There was once a test of different raid solutions at Tom's Hardware. Don't know if it still exists. Their conclusion was that yuo gained very little performance over a good 7200 rpm ATA 100 drive. But they liked the Highpoint one and also just making an NTFS stripe set.

[sammie]

Interesting. I'd say my gains were phenomanal, both on speed tests and in the real world. I don't remeber the exact figures, since I set it up quite a while ago, but it was close to double on the speed runs. Plus, I went from dropping close to a frame a second to typically less than a dozen in a 2 hour video capture. Of the frames I drop now, I'd say all of those are tied to a tape defect or some bright flash in the picture so due to capture issues not drive issues.

[loveturtleozark]

Used a Promise FastTrack for my first video rig and it was worth it
now use a modded ASUS MB W FastTrack RAID and still it is the best
the VIA chipset thing is no problem(actually had more problems with the Intel 440BX)
RAID is the way to go