Help buy SCSI drive to go with Adaptec 29160 (video editting setup)

[ChiknHead]

I need 2 drives for this (1 boot drive) and (1 for video editting (18 gig is fine)).

Main concerns are speed and noise level...Are the 15K RPM drive loud?
Well and of course money....looking to spend less than $400 on the 2 drive.

Thanks for any input/help

 

[Goosemaster]

1. Go to storagereview.com and browse around.

2. Go a site such as hypermicro.com and browse the selection adn bowse for drives and go back to storage review for their performance stats.


Inititially I would say get any 15K(such as an IBM 36z15) as your system drive.
For your storage drive I would recommend at least a 36GB drive to cover any overhead.


Maxtor is another very good choice for yo8ur storage(10krpm) drive. Other drives which you might want to look into are Fujitsu's line as they have proved to be excellent in the server maket and I'm sure there quality will serve you well.


A nice combo

OS DRIVE: IBM Ultrastar "Piranha" 36Z15 18.4GB 15000rpm $ 129 from hypermicro.com

STORAGE DRIVE:Fujitsu MAM 36GB 15,000rpm $280 from NEwegg.com:
For $409 plus S/H you get 2 (count them again if you want ) 15,000rpm drives and you get the performance and quality of both IBM and Fujitsu.

Enjoy.

 

[Pariah]

You can't get a current generation 15k drive on a $400 budget for 2 drives, and if you aren't getting current generation SCSI for video editing, don't bother. There's no reason to use a 15k drive for the boot drive of an editing system, so it's no big loss. The most important performance aspect for video editing is sustained throughput, which 10k drives are ideal for. My recommendation would be to get a cheap small ATA boot drive then buy 2 36GB Seagate 10k.6 drives ($398 including shipping from Hypermicro) and use win2k software RAID 0 for the best performance you can get on a budget.

 

[ChiknHead]

could you give me an exact model of Seagate to get for use with my SCSI adapter?

Thanks

 

[Goosemaster]

Originally posted by: Pariah
You can't get a current generation 15k drive on a $400 budget for 2 drives, and if you aren't getting current generation SCSI for video editing, don't bother. There's no reason to use a 15k drive for the boot drive of an editing system, so it's no big loss. The most important performance aspect for video editing is sustained throughput, which 10k drives are ideal for. My recommendation would be to get a cheap small ATA boot drive then buy 2 36GB Seagate 10k.6 drives ($398 including shipping from Hypermicro) and use win2k software RAID 0 for the best performance you can get on a budget.

not a bad idea. I was going for the 'peppy system" but appearantly you know more about video editing.

the Seagate cheetah is model ST336607LW which is $199 x2 = $400 .The drive also has 8MB of cache which could definitely come in handy. I myself have a SCSI drive with 8MB of cache.


Good info Pariah.

 

[ChiknHead]

thanks for the info guys. That will be the drive Ill be getting then.