Hard Drive Config for Optimal Video Editing

[defleprd]

Just bought a barebones system with Soyo Dragon Plus KT600 MOBO. MOBO has two SATA channels and two PATA channels. SATA channels have an on-board SATA RAID controller for RAID 0 or RAID 1 set-up. IDE channels apparently do not have a RAID controller - bummer as the description on the retailers site gave that impression. However I got such a great deal on this Dragon kit that I just can't bring myself to part with it.

I had originally intended to attached two WD Caviar (8MM cache) EIDE drives and set those to RAID 0 for video capture and to feed the video editing application (along with OS) which was going to reside on a WD SATA Raptor (10K RPM; 8 MB cache) connected to a SATA port. ). Based on my research this seemed to be an optimal hard drive set-up for video editing.

Now that this set-up is seemingly undoable, I'm thing that my second best option is to run two WD SATA Caviar's on the SATA RAID 0 and pipe my video application through a drive an ATA 133 IDE using an ATA 133 drive with 8MB cache.

Before I settle on this set-up I'm wondering if it makes more sense to simply run the video app on one (say 80 GB) SATA drive and the video footage on the second (say 200 GB) SATA drive and forget about RAID 0.

Your thoughts and comments are much appreciated.

[SoSl0w]

Either way I think you will have little problem. Have you thought of purchasing a PCI RAID controller? You could buy an SATA PCI RAID controller and have 2 RAID zero HDD or you could save some money and buy an IDE PCI RAID controller. Running 2 SATA RAIDs will be the fastest but more than likely the most expensive. Running a PCI IDE RAID 0 with the on board SATA RAID would help save money, yet should be faster than the single SATA option you listed IMO.