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  1. I know this may be a stupid question.

    But can someone explain to me what a RAID hard drive is and the pro's and con's of it ?

    Thanks a lot.
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  2. I'm not the expert, but it stands for Redundant Array of Inexpensive Disks. You can have more than one hard drive in your computer and have them mirror each other for fault tolerance. Or you can have more than one drive act together as one large hard drive. You can buy a RAID controller card or Windows 2000 and XP have some built in options for it. If you do a search on the web, I'm sure you'll find more than you need to know about it.

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  3. Thanks a lot Depeche

    Sorry Mysterio don't get what you are going on about
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  4. Originally Posted by hardcoreruss
    Thanks a lot Depeche

    Sorry Mysterio don't get what you are going on about

    I didnt think I would have to explain a joke, calm down man.
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  5. Don't get me wrong I am not getting out of my chair.

    I just want to know what you mean by your comment, is it something to do with my avatar.
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  6. Here in the states Raid is a brand of bug spray, used to kill bugs and very powerful too. But doesn't taste that good for some reason.

    regards

    Anthony
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    Before I upgraded I was given advice over at www.matroxusers.com that RAID 0 is not necessarily good for capture.
    I went ahead anyway and bought a card and two 80gb Matxtor D740X hard drives and configured as one 160gb striped aray.
    I had far more capture success when I broke the aray and used as two independant drives (I now use one for storage and the other specifically for capture - with a format before each capture).
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    What problems were you encountering while capturing to your RAID drives? I've got 2 Maxtor 80GB drives (the ones w/8MB cache) and haven't had any problems capturing/encoding to the RAID stripe. Maybe it had something to do with the RAID controller you were using and how your system board was accessing it? I know they can be pretty finicky. I copied my RAID set-up after a SaferSeas/Canopus system a local commercial place had (theirs is 4 200GB WD Caviar SE drives on a Promise RAID controller , I believe running RAID 0+1). I'd rather not have to get a SCSI controller and drives to capture to instead. $$$ $$$
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    Originally Posted by rallynavvie
    What problems were you encountering while capturing to your RAID drives?
    Quite simply; loss of frames
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    That's exactly what the RAID array is supposed to prevent
    It must have had something to do with your controller vs. your motherboard. I've heard there can be plenty of incompatabilities between the two.
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    Originally Posted by rallynavvie
    That's exactly what the RAID array is supposed to prevent
    I know, that's why I installed it.

    Originally Posted by rallynavvie
    It must have had something to do with your controller vs. your motherboard. I've heard there can be plenty of incompatabilities between the two.
    It isn't.
    One of the drives, the drive I now use for storage, has 'issues', shall we say.
    I'm happy with my system at present.
    I captured two hours last night and lost seven frames over the entire duration, ie. less than one quarter of one second over two hours.
    I can live with that.
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