Hey guys - didn't know where else to post this Just a quick question about hard drives I'm doing small time video editing but plan to get some bigger and better stuff happening. I'm pretty green so you'll have to get with me. I'm looking at getting hard drives for videos and to use for scratch. I was also looking at getting one to put my music and photos on, would that be better kept with my apps and such on my main machine? It's only 320GB.
Oh and I was looking into RAID (obviously not very hard) and I still don't know if I fully understand it. A noob friendly explanation would be wonderful ^^ Thanks. Hey guys - didn't know where else to post this Just a quick question about hard drives I'm doing small time video editing but plan to get some bigger and better stuff happening. I'm pretty green so you'll have to get with me. I'm looking at getting hard drives for videos and to use for scratch.
Hi,I'm trying to speed up my Mid 2012 15' Macbook Pro up for video editing.I've already done a bit, and this is what my specs are looking like currently:• 16GB Ram• 512GB Internal SSD•. I brought this hard couple of month back, I used PC and MAC both so I partitioned buy 1 GB hard into 3 partitions (2 for PC, 1 for MAC), Hard Drive is working fine, awesome transfer rate, no issues. ' used it to hold video media and transfers and plays flawlessly.
I was also looking at getting one to put my music and photos on, would that be better kept with my apps and such on my main machine? It's only 320GB. Oh and I was looking into RAID (obviously not very hard) and I still don't know if I fully understand it. A noob friendly explanation would be wonderful ^^ Thanks. Click to expand.For video you would want Raid 0 which would be 2 harddrives operating as one big drive thus (in theory) giving you twice the performance.
This would be great for a scratch disk for your work, but because you have 2 hard drives if one dies you lose all your data. Thus the likelyhood of this happening is twice as much as a single drive. For your data you would like to back up Raid 1 would be your best bet. It uses 2 Hard drives and mirros your data across both of them. If one dies, the other is still intact to keep you going.
For video you would want Raid 0 which would be 2 harddrives operating as one big drive thus (in theory) giving you twice the performance. This would be great for a scratch disk for your work, but because you have 2 hard drives if one dies you lose all your data. Thus the likelyhood of this happening is twice as much as a single drive. For your data you would like to back up Raid 1 would be your best bet. It uses 2 Hard drives and mirros your data across both of them. If one dies, the other is still intact to keep you going. You don't need a Raid 0 for most consumer video editing, and the fastest port on your iMac is the Firewire 800 port, which has a maximum throughput of 65 to 75MB/s, a speed most HDD today can sustain without even mirroring them.
To really get Raid 0 speeds, you need an e-SATA port. Also what kind of footage are you gonna editing? Where does the material (footage) come from? DV/HDV tapes, SD or other Flash cards, HDDs, XDCam disks.? What software do you want to use to edit?
At work, we have several FW800 HDDs to store DV footage and it is no problem editing that kind of footage, as the data rate of DV is 3.25MB/s. We also edit Digi Beta (uncompressed SD) video, but sue to amount of tapes, we capture it in a lower quality and batch capture only the finished sequence with uncompressed video. Digi Beta takes up approx. 20MB/s if it is uncompressed. Only uncompressed HD footage really requires a Raid 0 setup, as that HD material gets data rate of up to 220MB/s.
I see from your sig that you may be planning on getting a Mac Pro, a machine that can offer you Raid 0/1/5 if you want. But still, Raid might be a little bit over the top, as that entirely depends on your source footage.
You don't need a Raid 0 for most consumer video editing, and the fastest port on your iMac is the Firewire 800 port, which has a maximum throughput of 65 to 75MB/s, a speed most HDD today can sustain without even mirroring them. To really get Raid 0 speeds, you need an e-SATA port. Also what kind of footage are you gonna editing? Where does the material (footage) come from? DV/HDV tapes, SD or other Flash cards, HDDs, XDCam disks.? What software do you want to use to edit? At work, we have several FW800 HDDs to store DV footage and it is no problem editing that kind of footage, as the data rate of DV is 3.25MB/s.
We also edit Digi Beta (uncompressed SD) video, but sue to amount of tapes, we capture it in a lower quality and batch capture only the finished sequence with uncompressed video. Digi Beta takes up approx. 20MB/s if it is uncompressed. Only uncompressed HD footage really requires a Raid 0 setup, as that HD material gets data rate of up to 220MB/s. I see from your sig that you may be planning on getting a Mac Pro, a machine that can offer you Raid 0/1/5 if you want. But still, Raid might be a little bit over the top, as that entirely depends on your source footage. SD is short for Standard Definition, the predecessor to the current High Definition (HD) in the TV broadcasting system.
What you mean by 'SD card' is something else entirely, SD is short for and is a name for a memory card format. This the footage of that SD card is unlikely uncompressed, unless it is really, really big (16GB, 64GB) or the clips are short, very short. Uncompressed SD footage takes 1.6GB/min of storage space, HD footage varies due to the different offered solutions, and can amount to almost 13GB/min.
So what camera do you use exactly and what format are you shooting in? SD with PAL or NTSC, or HD with 720p, 1080i, 1080p or HDV? I have a couple of 2 TB WD Studio drives connected in a FireWire 800 chain. These are the drives: The neat thing about them is that each 2 TB drive is built using two 1 TB drives. This enables you to configure each unit as a RAID 0 or RAID 1. The drives are probably as fast as you can get considering their size.
You could probably achieve faster throughput if you had an ExpressCard slot in your MBP and used it to add an eSata port. But unless you're doing a full 1080P transfers, you should be fine with the FireWire 800. Click to expand.Given there wasn't any indication max speed was required, I only went with devices that can provide a level 5 array. But when max throughputs are needed, PCIe is the best way to go, followed by eSATA and PM enclosures (fine for some, as it's faster than FW400/800, USB, or 1G Ethernet). Both require slots, and only PCIe are available in Intel based MP's.
Cost is a major consideration of course. At any rate, if you need a card capable of a level 5/6/50/60, I can steer you in the right direction. SD is short for Standard Definition, the predecessor to the current High Definition (HD) in the TV broadcasting system. What you mean by 'SD card' is something else entirely, SD is short for and is a name for a memory card format. This the footage of that SD card is unlikely uncompressed, unless it is really, really big (16GB, 64GB) or the clips are short, very short.
Uncompressed SD footage takes 1.6GB/min of storage space, HD footage varies due to the different offered solutions, and can amount to almost 13GB/min. So what camera do you use exactly and what format are you shooting in? SD with PAL or NTSC, or HD with 720p, 1080i, 1080p or HDV?
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