Harddrive Schematics: Your Capture, Editing and Rendering Harddrive Set-up.
I am interested in how people are setting up their harddrives for maximum efficiency in capture, editing and render/export.
From your internal/'C' drive to your externals - USB, FW, eSata, etc. And, how they linked, or their hierarchy; how do you stream/move your data around to achieve efficiency?
Please note which NLE are you using and any relevant settings or preferences.
What's your method?
Cheers.
C drive: 110 gig SSD for Windows and programs
D drive: 1.5TB SATA for personal data (includes internet cache files, Mail files... etc) encrypted for theft protection.
E drive: 2TB SATA Capture drive (inlcudes page file)
F Drive: 2TB SATA Render drive
G Drive 2TB SATA Movie Storage
H Drive 2TB SATA Movie Storage
I Drive 2TB SATA Movie Storage
K Drive 2TB SATA Movie Storage
(all internal)
One 110 gig external for c drive back up.
Get the Samsung and forget the iphone!
C drive/Q drive: Sata 1TB with two partitions, one 472gig and the other ~450gigs. The Q drive is there for software installs mostly.
D drive: Sata 2TB for footage, photos etc
J Drive: USB3 2TB for backups of downloads, software and films. Some photos as well.
As of the moment, no backups... which is stupid, I know.
Well because we're such good friends I feel compelled to rub this in. You should know better.Originally Posted by Daniel Rutter
Partitioned C drive for all programs. Tutorial/movie/documents on the H half
I capture to an external drive only when I feel the need for portability or during backup. Otherwise, its all internal.
1) 500gb external backup. 2) 320GB external 3) 64GB flash. I would like a 2TB RAID next but thats still out of my budget at the moment.
Last edited by Krane; 2012 May 6th at 20:07.
Okay, thanks guys. Which drive(s) do you capture to, store project settings on, and export/render out to? That, and what type of connections (USB, FW, eSata, Thunderbolt) would be interesting to know. Flow of data stuff. Thanks.
Well, as stated, all my drives are internal SATA so I do no capturing/rendering to externals at all. I used to once upon a time (both usb and FW) but I found flow rates just too low for any serious purposes. For that reason, when it was time to upgrade (this was a few years back) I went with a mobo which had 8 on-board SATA heads so I was never reduced to capturing/rendering via external again
Personally speaking, the only good I see in externals now is for back up and portability, but actually working on externals is just too dammed slow.
Get the Samsung and forget the iphone!
Time to upgrade: A USB 3.0 port and compatible device should take care of all that; eSATA port otherwise.
My D drive is the drive I capture to, thats a SATA drive. I also render to the same drive. All video work is done only on that drive. When the time comes, that'll be easier to back up.
All SATA:
Disk 0: 1TB Win 7 C:, Video Complete D:
Disk 1: 2TB Data X:
Disk 2: 1.5TB Old XP installation P:, Data+Render T:
Disk 3: 2TB Raw Video V:
Backup: 1TB local USB + 6 drives stored at friends places. (Some USB, some SATA)
HFS21 l HF100 l DM100 l Zoom H1
200GB SATA - C:\ for Windows 7
500GB SATA - D:\ for my Pictures, Music and My Documents folders (as well as programs setups)
1TB SATA - N:\ Backup (captures and renders)
1TB SATA - M:\ External Backup (project compressed and stored there)
Premier Pro 5
All SATA 2 drives
C: 250 GB - Windows 7 64bit and Program Files (40 GB SSD Cache Drive)
D: 1.3 TB RAID 5 (4 x 500GB drives) - Working Video Clips, Premiere Project Files, Audio Files, Photos
E: 62 GB WD Raptor - Video Capture
F: 2 x 1TB Mirrored - Scratch Disk for PPro and Photoshop
2.68 TB (4 x 1 TB) RAID 5 - QNAP - 459 Pro II - Backup for RAW Video, Audio and Photos
4 TB (4 x 1 TB) JBOD - CineRaid CR-H 458 - Backup for QNAP and Internal RAID
The horror.... the horror....
This brigs an interesting question.... what about macs? This is not a mac forum but I would be quite interested in knowing how a mac user copes with 8 or 10+ internal sata II drives on a machine. I know with windows based machines it's pretty easy but is a mac user forced to go up in price with mac pro? With my XBX mobo I get 8 SATA heads on board and then with one expansion card I get another 4 for a total of 12 heads (I've got 3 open ones left for more expansion)... but how does a mac user expand and how many heads does a mac have to start with?
Get the Samsung and forget the iphone!
We got Thunderbolt and some nice RAID cabinets going with it.
"It is dark the other side. Very dark!" - "Oh, shut up and eat your toast!"
You mean something like this?
http://store.apple.com/us/product/H5184VC/A/Thunderbolt
That's pretty expensive, and speed is still not on par with normal sata heads. Can you not simply add sata expansion cards to a mac? How many heads does the average mac come with?
Get the Samsung and forget the iphone!
I wouldn't think that it is expensive. A good RAID card costs around 500 bucks, 400 bucks for the drives, another 100 for the Thunderbolt controller, some mark up and you are quick to reach the Pegasus' price. Please be aware that we are talking NFL here, not high school varsity
What is your average Mac? Mini? iMac? Pro?
"It is dark the other side. Very dark!" - "Oh, shut up and eat your toast!"
HUH?
For $600 you can get a multi lane card with the ability for EIGHT drives, but you don't need to go that expensive.
http://www.newegg.com/Store/SubCateg...ers-RAID-Cards
How many sata connection does a mac come with? At least the standard 4 I would hope?
Get the Samsung and forget the iphone!
Which one? There are several models. How many cylinders has a car?
Bob, you are aware that you linked to the smallest Pegasus cabinet. The bigger ones with more drives have the same controller built in. The Pegasus aren't that expensive compared to their competitors.
"It is dark the other side. Very dark!" - "Oh, shut up and eat your toast!"
Final Cut Express on internal iMac drive, files on 4 x 2TB external Firewire 800 drives.
(CG: I may yet change over to FCX...)
Ah, finally, Janke. You got Motion already?
"It is dark the other side. Very dark!" - "Oh, shut up and eat your toast!"
Nope. Looking into getting that, too. Price don't scare me none...
I don't have any projects going at the moment, but am looking for financing for a 30-minute doc about the Finnish champion in Hot Air Ballooning... would be nice to get up!
Cool
Indeed it brigs another interesting question; have you got any interesting projects in the pipe, Bob?
The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.
Nothig right now.... busy with other things.
Get the Samsung and forget the iphone!
And your last interesting project was?
The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.
Last month ( the school symphony). Got another one coming though... the kids graduate this year.
Get the Samsung and forget the iphone!
OK, lets have a look. I'd love to see what your superior setup can do.
The Korova milkbar sold milk-plus, milk plus vellocet or synthemesc or drencrom, which is what we were drinking. This would sharpen you up and make you ready for a bit of the old ultra-violence.
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