Video Capturing question

[spooky617]

Currently I have one SATA HD where my OS resides, I also have a RAID 0 on IDE built in on the motherboard, this RAID 0 is what I use for capturing video off my tv card.
My question is this, would I loose any performance if I was to upgrade my SATA to RAID0 & keep only SATA RAID0 for everything? my OS, my video capturing etc.

Thanx.

 

[ShinX]

No you might just gain some If you do video capturing a Larger RAID block size would speed you up.

 

[SilverBack]

A 64k size is recomended for video editing.
You won't notice a difference in your OS at this size either

 

[NickE]

Always best to keep the system drive and the video capture drives separate - there's too much stuff going on in the background of the boot disk to ensure reliable video capture. Also, disable virus scanner on the video drive if that's all it's ever used for, you don't want video streams being scanned as they spool to disk. Regular defragmentation is a must for large DV captures.

 

[Pauli]

Heck, I've been capturing video since the P3 and 5400RPM IDE HD days. I'm sure a SATA RAID0 setup will be more than capable of capturing any video format. What are you worried about?

 

[LoverBoyJ]

I would agree with NickE. I have onbard SATA Raid0 set to 64K block size for my OS and other software and on board IDE Raid0 specifically for video capture set to bigger block size (i think 512K block size, could be bigger). I also have another drive not set to raid for data.
The reason for this is OS's have small different file sizes and the 64Kb block would increase its speed in reading/writing, as for the video capture, it will have huge file sizes due to rate it captures the video (without compression).
see my rig.....