Video Editing Drives

[ninja419]

Hi everyone. I recently started to get into video editing so I am in the market for some hard drives. I bought a WD Caviar Black 500GB along with a Rosewill enclosure for the drive.

I was planning to use the external as my main media drive which I would use to store video and audio, leaving the programs to run on my internal WD 250gb drive from back in the day.

I was wondering if the external enclosure is necessary or could I just mount the second drive as an internal. I know that I can do either and each way has pro's and con's but I was looking for a more definitive answer concerning transfer speeds and drop frames...etc

Thanks ahead of time!

 

[Rifter]

If its a eSATA enclosure it will be just as fast as if mounted internally. If you are using it with USB 2 you are crazy and should mount it internally.

 

[ninja419]

Yes, the Rosewill enclosure is equipped with eSata as well as my mobo. eSata is comparable to Firewire?

 

[Mark R]

eSata is comparable to Firewire?

eSata is a good bit faster than firewire.

 

[Blain]

Yes, the Rosewill enclosure is equipped with eSata as well as my mobo. eSata is comparable to Firewire?

Which firewire version are you asking about?

 

[snouter]

Yes, the Rosewill enclosure is equipped with eSata as well as my mobo. eSata is comparable to Firewire?

eSATA is SATA. It's just not inside the computer. It's the same as an internal drive.

 

[ninja419]

nice. Thanks guys!

 

[MrCoyote]

Yes, hooked to eSATA, it will be faster than even the newer Firewire 800. USB 2.0 and Firewire 400/800 are too slow for copying very large files. I do have a USB2 hard drive but never use it for backups, because it is so slow it takes several hours to back up only 300GB of data on my system drive. eSATA/SATA will have it backed up in less than 30 minutes. Also make sure you back up the data on the external drive to something else (DVD's or another external drive). You never know if a hard drive will fail.