mark2 Posted July 11, 2004 Report Share Posted July 11, 2004 XP home, 1.6 p4I have just installed my new samsung 120gb 7200rpm hd as a slave to my systemcurrent master hd is a maxtor 5400 60gb. (3 partitions )I want to do some minor video editing etc.How best to set things up ?Copy current drive to new drive using DI2002 and switch master/slave ? does it copy the mbr too ? Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted July 11, 2004 Report Share Posted July 11, 2004 Use the 7200 as the scratch. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted July 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2004 Use the 7200 as the scratch.Thats what I thought but would I be better having os etc all on the 7200 (suitably partitioned) and using the 5400 maxtor for backup/images/progs and linux etc Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
Chris Posted July 11, 2004 Report Share Posted July 11, 2004 Ah...Well if you stick the main os on the 7200 you'll be sweet. Anything else it dosn't matter.But for Video, yes on the 7200. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted July 11, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 11, 2004 Ok tomorrow's project then is to get the o/s etc cloned across then, any suggestions for scratch size ?What will I do with all that space ? :D Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted July 12, 2004 Report Share Posted July 12, 2004 What will I do with all that space ? :DThere won't be all that much.Always work in best quality mode when doing the transfer to hard disc. If you need to do any quality reduction e.g. to make it fit on a DVD, do that at the writing stage. This way, you need about 40GB per hour on many editing systems plus some for it manipulating the files during rendering if you're thinking of writing a DVD. I use a 7200 rpm 120GB drive exclusively for video editing.The drive gets really messed up with files all over the place so I delete everything on the drive after every use and reformat after about ten uses. If you want to use the hard disc for other purposes, you should partition it but, leave plenty of room for your video. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
mark2 Posted July 12, 2004 Author Report Share Posted July 12, 2004 thank you, -pops-, I knew it would be resource hungry, didn't realise quite how much tho. Seems another disc will be in order shortly then, so it will be O/S and video on the 7200, everything else on the older drive for now. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
AlanHo Posted July 12, 2004 Report Share Posted July 12, 2004 I use Pinnacle Studio for video and they strongly recomment when you have two hard discs to keep your OS and programme files on a separate disc from your video files.I am happy with my OS on one small HD and my video files on a larger slave drive. Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
-pops- Posted July 12, 2004 Report Share Posted July 12, 2004 Yep, try and keep all your video stuff separate from the O/S and programs. You will most likely have to reformat the disc you use for video on a fairly regular basis. Even if you think you don't have to do this, it is definitely best to as, after a time, the disc seems to be less responsive and you may get messages saying that the data transfer rate is insufficient to proceed (or something like that).My current setup is:1 x 80GB with O/S, program files and my own stuff (personal data, records, files)1 x 80GB with a full system backup, daily files and settings backup and pictures, sound etc files.1 x 120GB for video processing.(Bit of advice: If you look at the fragmentation of your disc with video files on it you will most likely thing it is a real mess. DO NOT DEFRAG IT. The files must be laid out like they are for a reason which we don't know about. I defragged the files once and it caused so much hassle and problems getting things going again.) Quote Link to comment Share on other sites More sharing options...
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