Recommendations for stripe size for video capture and dvd backup

[wemmington]

I have 2 120g seagate sata drives not im not sure what stripe size to use. Im tring to get a performance boost for video capture(approx 120 minutes at a time) and dvd backup mainly. Also pc games(but not as impotant). Thanks in advance for any suggestions.

I'd say the larger the file size, the larger the cluster size in the stripe. Go w/ the max you can since your video files are gonna be rather large.

[wemmington]

Thanks for the quick reply. what is the max? 512?

[Siliconjunkie]

http://www.pcguide.com/ref/hdd/perf/...fStripe-c.html

The impact of stripe size upon performance is more difficult to quantify than the effect of stripe width:

Decreasing Stripe Size: As stripe size is decreased, files are broken into smaller and smaller pieces. This increases the number of drives that an average file will use to hold all the blocks containing the data of that file, theoretically increasing transfer performance, but decreasing positioning performance.

Increasing Stripe Size: Increasing the stripe size of the array does the opposite of decreasing it, of course. Fewer drives are required to store files of a given size, so transfer performance decreases. However, if the controller is optimized to allow it, the requirement for fewer drives allows the drives not needed for a particular access to be used for another one, improving positioning performance.