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Worth it to get a 10,000 rpm drive?
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Join Date: Apr 2001
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Would it be worth it to get a 10,000 rpm SCSI drive for OS and Application storage even though the files I'll be working with will be stored on a 7,200 rpm drive?
(OS X.2 and FCP on the SCSI, video capture files on the ATA)
Thanks!
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Join Date: Aug 2001
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Most people seem to do the opposite and do the capture on the faster drives. I think PATA and SATA drives are fast enough at this point that for most DV work SCSI is really not necessary. If the ATA is sufficient for you capture I really don't think you will get any real benefit from having the OS and FCP an a faster drive. OSX may boot faster and FCP may launch a little quicker but that's about all I can see. You will be spending all your time working in FCP so launching it will only be a one shot deal for you.
If you really like the sound of 10,000 rpm I think you will be able to get a bunch of SATA 10k'ers soon. G5's have SATA built in or older systems could get a SATA card
-Jerry C.
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You'd be better off striping two 7200 rpm drives.
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Alright, I didn't think it'd be the most worthwhile idea... thanks!
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Join Date: Aug 2002
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Originally posted by Cipher13:
You'd be better off striping two 7200 rpm drives.
Excellent idea. 
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Join Date: Mar 2000
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Originally posted by Cipher13:
You'd be better off striping two 7200 rpm drives.
....and far less expensive than the SCSI option.
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Join Date: Dec 2002
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Originally posted by Cipher13:
You'd be better off striping two 7200 rpm drives.
That's the best way to go.
But your post count is... INSANE! 
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Join Date: Feb 2002
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If you are striping the 2 drives, be sure that they are not sharing an IDE ribbon. You will need to get an IDE controller card like the one sonnet makes. The reason for this is because when sharing a ribbon cable, you can only write to one drive at a time, thus defeating the purpose of a striped drive. When you stripe 2 drives, you are creating a Redundant Array where 2 or more drives are being written to and read from concurrently. Having them share a cable limits this and causes potentially dangerous bottlenecks to both drives. An IDE raid is the least stable and not recommended ( when sharing).
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Yah - there's not much benefit to putting docs on the slower disk and apps and OS on the faster one. If you have enough RAM, then the startup disk should not be accessed often. The documents disk, however, is going to be altered fairly often if you save like you should. It won't make terrible much difference.
Striping is a good idea if you use a hardware RAID solution - not the Apple software RAID. That robs CPU cycles which is no good in a Photoshopping or video-editing application. Striping is also good if you've got three disks - two in your computer being striped and the third in the closet as a daily backup.
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