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how big of a boot drive should i get?

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twitchee2

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im thinking about getting just a boot drive and then a bid storage drive. i curently use just one drive for everything in my current rig. waht would you sugest? and ho wbig of a storage drive should i get? i will be video editing. and i im buying seagates


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Scary, I'm putting the exact same thing in my new PC!!

It depends on whats being put on the storage drives, If you know you'll be putting video stuff(TV shows, DVD rips, etc.)which take up lots of space, what you have could work, if not, maybe save money and get something smaller.
 
i dont want raid. i dont know how to do it so im not gonna mess with it. i have a 120 1/2 full with music and 3 games and all my apps. im gonning to be editing so i need lots of stoarge for the raw video. i know i will need at lease 5 hour worth of raw space. how many gigs to a hour for raw footage? and i dont think i want a raptor and cheetah do to noise.
 
No, not for 5 hours. He must be talking an hour or so IIRC.

I would go with your original plan. You'd have massive storage capacity and good speed. Actually, I'd like to see the benchies of the 250G IDE vs. the 120 Sata. Bigger platters may make up for the sata difference, making it a better value altogether. Sata's cool, and it holds the potential to be much faster, but it's not worth paying the same price for 140 GB less storage, especially if you think you'll need the 620 GB that your plan was for initially.
 
Not sure off hand what Seagate has that's comparable to the Rapture. Go with the 37.5 Rapture or the equivalent. Its a good HD for the system drive and the speed helps load the larger apps faster. If your going to be doing video capture you don't want the that feed going to your system drive, so definitely partition off 3-5 gigs a larger 250 or 300 for capture and use the rest for storage.
 
Honestly it depends on your usage. I started with a 74gb raptor as a boot, but ended up having to run 2 of them in raid 0 because I needed more room.
Always best to have a higher RPM drive for boot, but if your anticipating having a lot of things on it, then size might take precedence rather than speed, unless of course you have the extra money to get a few raptors and raid 0 them, or just go with a few 15k scsi's.

As far as your 2nd post on those 3 drives, the two 250gb's should be good (but I would personally go with 2 of the SATA versions) for storage depending on your need (they are great drives btw), but I would consider at least a 10k rpm drive as a boot (see above paragraph).
 
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