Hard Drive advise for Video Editing

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What exactly are you using to connect the SCSI drives to? That board, as is the case with most consumer oriented boards, has not SCSI ports on it. The only option left to you is to get an expansion card that supports it. However, it will be a bit of a silly idea to use a PCI based SCSI controller, as it will be seroiusly bottlenecked by the PCI bus (which transfers data slower than the SCSI interface (well the Ultra 320 interface...)) That in its self would make the SCSI drives fairly worthless, as you could just hook up a PATA drive and get the same speed :P (PCI gets up to 133MB/s, while SCIS Ultra 320 can hit 320MB/s, yo ucan see why a PCI based SCSI controller would be a bit of a dud...)

So I have a few questions for you...

Are you getting a SCSI controller?
If so, is it PCI or PCIe?
PCI wont be fast enough, and I dont know if that motherboard supports PCIe 2x or 4x... Which you would probably need for a SCSI card..
This probably costs alot either way....
What speed SCSI are you using?
Why are you using SCSI anyway?

You say this is a hobby, this may be a bit too over kill for a hobby... Then again, a SCSI RAID 0 array would be quick.... It would definately help in instances where you've got huge video to play with... I dont think actual rendering of the final footage will really be effected, but the overall interactivness of the system when it comes to large manipulation should improve..

[Boy Sputnik]

What exactly are you using to connect the SCSI drives to? That board, as is the case with most consumer oriented boards, has not SCSI ports on it. The only option left to you is to get an expansion card that supports it. However, it will be a bit of a silly idea to use a PCI based SCSI controller, as it will be seroiusly bottlenecked by the PCI bus (which transfers data slower than the SCSI interface (well the Ultra 320 interface...)) That in its self would make the SCSI drives fairly worthless, as you could just hook up a PATA drive and get the same speed :P (PCI gets up to 133MB/s, while SCIS Ultra 320 can hit 320MB/s, yo ucan see why a PCI based SCSI controller would be a bit of a dud...)

So I have a few questions for you...

Are you getting a SCSI controller?
If so, is it PCI or PCIe?
PCI wont be fast enough, and I dont know if that motherboard supports PCIe 2x or 4x... Which you would probably need for a SCSI card..
This probably costs alot either way....
What speed SCSI are you using?
Why are you using SCSI anyway?

You say this is a hobby, this may be a bit too over kill for a hobby... Then again, a SCSI RAID 0 array would be quick.... It would definately help in instances where you've got huge video to play with... I dont think actual rendering of the final footage will really be effected, but the overall interactivness of the system when it comes to large manipulation should improve..


Thanks.

I'll be using the PCI slot to connect an Adaptec 29320A-R card. So you're saying the U320 hard drives connected via the SCSI card in the PCI slots would have the same speed as a PATA drive, no improvement at all? The reason i'm using SCSI is because i got these real cheap. I'm still planning to get additional high capacity SATA drives for storage, though.

As i said, i'm a newbie at this and try editing as a hobby, for now. If in the future this turns into more than a hobby, then i'll just move to better components.

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