1 Reply Latest reply: Sep 30, 2012 8:28 AM by John T Smith RSS

    Multiple Drives

    Dave Dwyer Community Member

      Hi all.

       

      Can anyone provide information about multiple drive setups for video editing?

      I'm perhaps old school in that I've always worked my video projects on my main C drive and then archived projects on externals.

       

      I'm currently building a new workstation to be used daily for editing HD video (AVCHD/.MOV h2.64) and would appreciate some info around multiple drives with regards to:

      • workflow
      • number of drives
      • types of drives
      • size of drives
      • purpose of each drive

       

      Thanks

        • 1. Re: Multiple Drives
          John T Smith CommunityMVP

          My 3 hard drives for video editing are configured as...

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          1 - 320Gig Boot for Win7 64bit Pro and ALL program installs (2)

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          2 - 320Gig data for Win7 paging swap file and video project files

          When I create a project on #2 drive, the various work files follow,

          so my boot drive is not used for the media cache folders and files

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          3 - 1Terabyte data for all video files... input & output files (1)

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          (1) for faster input/output if you have 4 drives

          - use drive 3 for all source files

          - use drive 4 for all output files

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          (2) only 60Gig used, for Win7 & CS5 MC & MS Office & other smaller programs

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          Search Microsoft to find out how to redirect your Windows paging swap file

          http://search.microsoft.com/search.aspx?mkt=en-US&setlang=en-US

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          I do not use RAID... AVCHD is CPU intensive, not drive intensive like uncompressed, so I have no problems editing without RAID (but, this is for "simple" home videos)