Gregg,
I agree with what you wrote and someone else would still suggest RAID on
top of of all that.
Yes, if you are a professional who earns his living with editing, time
is money and your suggestions
will do just that.
BUT I am making the statement that even if you have only one HDD and all
your material is on there
you should still be able to edit without crashes. All that happens is
that everything will take much longer.
I do only odd jobs and most my videos are amateur stuff. I am retired
and time is no issue for me.
So why should I spend money on having the latest, biggest and fastest
all the time?
Yes, I normally use different drives for different purposes but by
mistake I once had everything on an
external 2.5inch!!! USB2 drive - no crashes. I only realized my mistake
because rendering took about
twice as long as usual.
Hopefully one day before I die I will also have a super computer with
all the latest bells and whistles
but that will normally last for a few weeks only as soon enough there
will be something better on the
market.
Enjoy your editing, I do - and with my vintage computer have enough
time for a few beers in between.
Uwe
>
> Whichever drive the Windows swap file is on is where AP's scratch
> (temp) disk(s) should NOT be.
>
> That's physical drives, not partitions. If your PC has one drive with
> two or more partitions, it won't do you any good to use one of the
> other partitions as a scratch disk for AP because a single set of
> heads must service all the partitions.
>
> You want a completely separate hard drive. USB 2.0 externals aren't
> suitable for AP scratch disks. You want eSata or firewire, preferably
> FW800. Or you can get on the bleeding edge and go for USB 3.0.
>
> Ideally you want one drive for your OS and programs. Some people split
> it in two partitions so they can keep data separate from the OS so
> they won;t have to find someplace to copy it when they need to
> reinstall the OS.
>
> A second drive for AP's scratch disk and a third for the source files.
> The exported video files can be saved to the OS drive or preferably a
> second partition on the OS drive.
>
> Servicing read/write to the swap file and writes to the exported video
> files on the same drive is within the capabilities of current hard
> drives and computer hardware. With a 64bit OS, plenty of RAM and
> running nothing major but AP, there will be very little swap file
> activity.
>
> Of course you could have a 4th drive just for the exported files.
>
> But for short projects on a decently fast system with enough RAM, a
> single drive *should* be usable, though not ideal.
>
> For only two drives, put the source and scratch on the second drive
> and save the export to the OS drive.
>
>
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