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Posted by Spex on 04/09/07 10:48
St Lucky
You are making a very serious mistake if you listen the the advice you
have been given so far in this thread.
Crowley obviously doesn't understand nor have any experience in what he
is advising on.
Use Enterprise quality SATA drives that have much lower failure rates
and are more tolerant to the vibration of other drives in the array.
For example;
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/index.asp?cat=2
Many people are using RAID0 for cutting HD and I am one of those. As
with any storage medium that is not fault tolerant you must have a
disaster recovery system in place. I back up regularly to other drives
so my project data is is mirrored off the array. You should do this
anyway even if you are using single SATA drives.
I know of people who are using 5 and 10 drive RAID0 arrays for cutting
uncompressed HD who have not had a problem and if they ever did they
have a recovery system in place.
Cooling of the drives should be a concern. If you are just putting a 2
drive RAID together then that would be fine to go in the PC chassis
but ensure that the chassis has drive bay extractor fans. I always used
Coolermaster cases when building my own workstations for NLE and 3D
animation. They always had enough drive bays to fit the HDDs in every
other drive bay so keeping the air flowing round the drives.
External drive enclosures are necessary for 5 and 10 drive arrays for
obvious reasons and will feature good ventilation for the drives.
Editing HD on a tight budget is about being pragmatic, walking into the
project with you eyes open and having a backup plan.
The Edius NX system from what I hear is an excellent choice.
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