I have an Asus P5GDC Deluxe motherboard w/ a 3.4 GHz processor and a gig of Corsair TwinX memory. My storage consists of a 3 drive SATA-150 RAID 5 array on a MegaRaid 150-4 controller, but have recently purchased 4 SATA-300 drives and an MegaRaid 300-8x card. Before I begin the surgery, I'd like a few opinions. Each time I ask LSI Logic, I get the standard answer "it depends on what you want."
Besides the normal Windows and Office apps, I do a fair amount of video editing w/ Pinnacle Studio or Vegas 6. Currently it takes about 4-5 hours to render a DVD from an hour of footage (13 GB AVI file from my DV camcorder). Rendering is hard drive intensive, so read/write speed is a requisite. That said, I want fault tolerance. On my current RAID 5 system, it takes my 3.4 GHz machine about 4 minutes to boot after power-on (includes Post).
Bottom line, I want faster read/write speed, shorten the time it takes to render my video to DVD (DVD burn is negligible) and fault tolerance so I can rebuild the array if I lose a hard drive.
I'm thinking of a 4 drive RAID 10 array. Does anyone have an opinion? This is a home workstation, so price is also a factor.
Thanks in advance to all who answer,
Jeff
Besides the normal Windows and Office apps, I do a fair amount of video editing w/ Pinnacle Studio or Vegas 6. Currently it takes about 4-5 hours to render a DVD from an hour of footage (13 GB AVI file from my DV camcorder). Rendering is hard drive intensive, so read/write speed is a requisite. That said, I want fault tolerance. On my current RAID 5 system, it takes my 3.4 GHz machine about 4 minutes to boot after power-on (includes Post).
Bottom line, I want faster read/write speed, shorten the time it takes to render my video to DVD (DVD burn is negligible) and fault tolerance so I can rebuild the array if I lose a hard drive.
I'm thinking of a 4 drive RAID 10 array. Does anyone have an opinion? This is a home workstation, so price is also a factor.
Thanks in advance to all who answer,
Jeff
