How fast does your system drive need to be? at DVinfo.net

Tyson Persall · June 30th, 2007, 12:34 PM

For video editing, how fast does your system drive need to be? If you have your storage on a RAID array, then you are using your system drive for programs, and OS. So is there any benefit to a faster system drive? I asume not... 40mb/s should be fine right? As opposed to 80mb/s you get with faster SATAII?

Eric Shepherd · July 1st, 2007, 12:34 AM

Hey Tyson,

It should only really matter if you have a swap/paging/virtual memory file on that drive. Otherwise, it's only accessed occasionally for plugins, filters, little things like that. Just keep it defragmented and you should be fine.

The actual drive speed won't be equal to the interface speed though. I doubt you'd find an 80meg/sec hard drive out there. :)

Hope this helps,
Eric

June 30th, 2007, 12:34 PM	#1
Tyson Persall Major Player Join Date: Sep 2004 Location: North Hollywood, Atlanta Posts: 437	How fast does your system drive need to be? For video editing, how fast does your system drive need to be? If you have your storage on a RAID array, then you are using your system drive for programs, and OS. So is there any benefit to a faster system drive? I asume not... 40mb/s should be fine right? As opposed to 80mb/s you get with faster SATAII? __________________ Tyson X

July 1st, 2007, 12:34 AM	#2
Eric Shepherd Major Player Join Date: Feb 2007 Location: Orlando, FL Posts: 404	Hey Tyson, It should only really matter if you have a swap/paging/virtual memory file on that drive. Otherwise, it's only accessed occasionally for plugins, filters, little things like that. Just keep it defragmented and you should be fine. The actual drive speed won't be equal to the interface speed though. I doubt you'd find an 80meg/sec hard drive out there. :) Hope this helps, Eric