Best way to revamp hard drive system for video editing?

top-dog92

Hello

Currently i have 1x 250GB hard drive and 1x 400GB hard drive (both Seagate SATA 7200 rpm). I also have a Seagate FreeAgent Pro 1TB external hard drive for back ups.
There is a 20GB partition for Windows XP Pro on the 250GB drive.

Lately i have started getting serious about video editing, motion graphics and such and i'm in need of more hard drive space and would like to be able to handle data (raw video footage takes up a LOT of space) faster and more efficiently.

What would be the best way for me to arrange or configure a new set of hard drives for this purpose?

I was thinking of maxing out my internal storage at 2TB (i don't think Windows XP accepts more than that) with 4x 500GB hard drives.

Let me know what you think the best way of doing this is please.

My thoughts were:
-To have one 30GB partition for Windows, another 30GB partition if ever i install another operating system and general documents and media on 1 of the 500GB drives
-To have one 500GB hard drive dedicated solely to media storage (not work-related video projects but storing only of movies, music, tv shows etc.)

-I'd like one of the 500GB drives only for storing and capturing RAW video footage.

-I'd like the last 500GB drive only for the storing and writing to of edited video files and storing of temp and preview files that Adobe CS3 creates.

-I'd purchase another external 1TB in order to backup my entire internal storage to both external drives.

Thanks

P.S I've heard about RAID and its not exactly one of the things i really understand but i've heard that it can improve speed, especially for video editing - what do you think?

Answer
put in two 1T 32meg cache drives in RAID 1 and keep the 250 for a system drive...

Can you edit video from an external hard drive if laptop HD is out of space?

shannonkay

Hi,
I have a 100GB HDD in my sony vaio laptop (vgn-fe550g) and have edited video onto DVD through Roxio Easy Media Creator 9 without any issues. However, I am now running out of space because for my second DVD project I have a lot more video footage. Do you think I will experience any issues if I hook up an external hard drive and work with my video from there? I will be hooking it up via USB 2.0. Thanks!

Answer
Yes you can. It might be a bit slower, depending on the USB connection and how many other devices are using the same USB bus. One thing which may help. Move 20GB from your HD to the external drive, then use the two drives together for the video projects. Capture the main files to the external while using the internal for "cache" or temporary files. When you read from one and write to another you will see a net gain in performance, like when you are rendering a DVD stream from edited footage.

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