Best Hard Drive for Video Editing

[futuroadjunto]

Which is the best hard drive for video editing?
Between the Western Digital Caviar RE Sata and the Western Digital SE Sata what you recomend? Or another.

 

[mechBgon]

Fujtisu MAU or Maxtor Atlas 15k II, is my guess :evil: Preferably several

 

[Loop2kil]

yep, couple of 15k scsi's on a 64bit pci slot running in a u320 raid 0.

of the 2 you posted i would go with the cheapest.

 

[fstime]

I dont think he is looking to spend that much seeing his is looking at a simplke 7200 rpm drive

 

[anarchyreigns]

Try the new 16mb cache SATA II WD SE 16.

 

[ChineseGuy]

How bout a WD raptor?

 

[thegorx]

I recomend, having two drives
read from one >edit< write to another

 

[gsellis]

Although I agree that 15k 320 SCSIs are the best, you will pay for it. In video editing, size matters. I prefer WD and would buy the biggest with 8MB cache. If you are doing DV, a 7200rpm drive is adequate. I use a pair of 200s as RAID0 to create a volume that is 400GB. Not because I think it is faster, but because size matters. What the different models tend to buy is better warranty, which means the mfgr may believe that drive is more reliable. That is ALWAYS a good thing.

Just for reference, the last project I completed was from 16 tapes. That took 150GB of capture storage and 20GB of render storage (don't do the math, I logged what I thought I would use). I just deleted it as backup is just too expensive and I keep the tapes.

 

[Hulk]

Unless you are working with uncompressed streams, and even they'd have to be HD, you don't need anything faster than one of the current 7200rpm drives available today.

DV data rate is 3.6MB/sec, well below most any current drive, which can sustain over 20MB/sec. Even capturing lossless compression using huffyuv is only about 10MB/sec, which I was doing 5 years ago on ATA drives with no problem using a PIII850.

The new HDV format is also 3.6MB/sec so no worries there either, and if you edit it using the Cineform CFHD intermediary codec it's still only 10MB/sec.

Just make sure it's a 7200RPM drive placed on a secondary channel and big, video projects will tend to eat up lots of disk space, even small ones. Cache size won't have a big impact because the video files are so large.

I recently co-wrote a book on HDV called "HDV: What You NEED To Know" (on Amazon now). Have written books on DVD authoring, and spoke at the NAB 2005 Post Production conference so I have quite a bit of experience in this area.

- Mark