HD or ram

[Polarman]

Use 2 hard drives

One hard drive for capture and editing. The other drive should be used for rendering after your editing is done.

This is the most efficient way for video editing. Using raid 0 is not better.

The rendering part takes forever with one drive.

[dirtwarrior]

On my box I am going to order a new pata 300 gb HD and use my 120 in an external enclosure I got.

Should be plenty of storage.

When my box wears out I will just build a newer faster box. When I build one I usuall dont get the latest technology, I get the one 1 or 2 teirs below. Cost effective and a very good boost in performance over what I got.

[dirtwarrior]

OK I am ready to order a HD. Any good links for good inexpensive HD?

[jcarle]

You live in the US, why would you order from anywhere else but Newegg? You lucky son of ...

[E-66]

Looks like these are your choices:

http://www.newegg.com/Product/ProductList....alue=353%3A7873

[jcarle]

Don't get a recertified drive. Buy a new one.

[dirtwarrior]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16822148139

What do you guys think of this one?

and this case

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16811190099

or

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16811125471

Edited December 12, 2006 by dirtwarrior

[puntoMX]

Don't get a recertified drive. Buy a new one.

Yeah, worst thing you could buy for in your computer. They sell them like new in Mexico, always I have to send them back to get me a new one... d*mn bastards...

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16822148139

What do you guys think of this one?

Don’t look more, you got it .

[Maleko]

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Product.asp?...N82E16822148139

What do you guys think of this one?

Don’t look more, you got it .

Yip, gd choice.

[dirtwarrior]

What do you all think of the cases?

[jcarle]

If you're going to go with an inexpensive case, make sure you swap out any power supply that comes with it. Get yourself a reliable Antec power supply (or another reliable brand).

A case is just metal. So it really doesn't matter what you get, it's a question of taste as long as you make sure that if you don't get a case that comes standard with a reliable power supply, you change it for one of a reliable manufacturer.

[dirtwarrior]

I was thinking about air flow and cooling.

[puntoMX]

Depends what you like to spend on it... And how much you want to put inside it...

[jcarle]

Got a list of the hardware that you're going to be putting inside it?

[dirtwarrior]

ATM it has a sonydvd--pioneer dvd r--1024 mb ram--120 gb samsung HD soon to be changed to a 320 seagate--ati 5000 series video card 256 ddr--sb sound--amd 2100+.

Its old but runs good and will upgrade as needed or wanted