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harddrive minimum speed for video editing

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Bfavre444

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What is the minimal and recommended realistic transfer speed of a harddrive for video editing? I have a laptop and the only way I can connect my 80GB and 40GB IDE drives is to use external firewire enclosures which can get about 21MB/s average transfer speed.

Is that fast enough to edit in Premiere? For example, fast enough for preview writing to drive, reading avis, alt-scrubbing, playing timeline, exporting, etc, without major delays and skips?

What do you guys consider fast enough? 25MB/s? 30MB/s? (average read speed benchmarked by HDtach or Sisoft Sandra)
 
Well generally with video you can never really be too fast or too big. I've never used an external firewire hd myself, but if it can do 30MB/s you should be fine as that is pretty close to the average speed of an internal drive. Sure it will be slower I'm sure, but probably not too bad.
 
Yer best bet is to get an enclosure w/the Oxford 911 chipset. But YMMV, editing w/Firewire HDDs can be hit or miss.

Lethal
 
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