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Hard Drive set up for AVCHD

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Old 29-07-2009, 2:00 PM   #1
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Hard Drive set up for AVCHD

I am thinking about upgrading my hard drives as I have bought a Panasonic SD100 AVCHD camcorder.

My set up on Intel ICH9R:

2 x 150gb Raptor Raid 0 - OS, Games & Apps
Read Speeds (mb/sec)
Min 90 - Av 130 - Max 160 - Burst 106

4 x 250gb Western Digital Caviar SE16 Raid 0 - Video data & music etc
Read Speeds (mb/sec)
Min 102 - Av 138 - Max 158 - Burst 128

1 x Seagate 1TB 7200.11 (on Jmicron) - Back up for Video data & music etc
Read Speeds (mb/sec)
Min 50 - Av 87 - Max 109 - Burst 96

Would you recomend me changing any drives? The WD 250gb are the oldest. Do I even need to change HD are they limiting me in anyway?

System is in my sig.

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Old 30-07-2009, 8:33 AM   #2
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Re: Hard Drive set up for AVCHD

With those drives in a RAID0 configuration they will be fast enough for any video editing application. AVCHD editing is not very HDD intensive, it is CPU intensive - the faster the CPU the better, but your overclocked Q6600 should be fine.
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Re: Hard Drive set up for AVCHD

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Originally Posted by JefUK View Post
With those drives in a RAID0 configuration they will be fast enough for any video editing application. AVCHD editing is not very HDD intensive, it is CPU intensive - the faster the CPU the better, but your overclocked Q6600 should be fine.
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Even Ext USB HDD drives are fine and a Q6600 running at its " native speed" generally OK especially if there is a decent amt of RAM and graphics card is not dragging back system performance
It is also true that the software used tend to vary in thier hardware " demands"
But to answer the original query .. as stated above those HDDs will do fine
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Old 30-07-2009, 11:44 AM   #4
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Re: Hard Drive set up for AVCHD

Thats cool to know. I am even thinking of getting another 1TB to replace the 4 drive Raid 0 and have the 2 x 1TB in Raid 1. Then at a later date replace the 2 raptors with SSD's.
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