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Lewis Lehman · September 5th, 2005, 10:40 PM

Render times with HDV can be painfully slow. Since I don't have the resources to have a bunch of G5's rendering away at my creative follies, I'm wondering if building a raid configuration for my hard drives will improve render and encoding times. I figured I would buy at least one more 250 gig drive.

dual 1.8, 2 gig RAM
3x 7200rpm HDD's, 80, 160, 250 gig's
FCS, Sony HVR-Z1U

Lewis

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Andrew Kimery · September 6th, 2005, 03:06 AM

In regards to rendering I think the proc is your biggest bottle neck. I don't think upgrading the throughput of your HDDs will do much, if anything, to lessen your render times.

-Andrew

September 5th, 2005, 10:40 PM	#1
Lewis Lehman Regular Crew Join Date: Apr 2005 Posts: 35	Raid and HDV Render times with HDV can be painfully slow. Since I don't have the resources to have a bunch of G5's rendering away at my creative follies, I'm wondering if building a raid configuration for my hard drives will improve render and encoding times. I figured I would buy at least one more 250 gig drive. dual 1.8, 2 gig RAM 3x 7200rpm HDD's, 80, 160, 250 gig's FCS, Sony HVR-Z1U Lewis ___________________________ Fear is Faith it Won't Work Out

September 6th, 2005, 03:06 AM	#2
Andrew Kimery Major Player Join Date: Aug 2005 Location: Los Angeles Posts: 352	In regards to rendering I think the proc is your biggest bottle neck. I don't think upgrading the throughput of your HDDs will do much, if anything, to lessen your render times. -Andrew