Best Video editing storage solution

[Zolty]

First money is mostly not an issue.

I am looking for a drive solution for the OS (Windows 7 64bit) and programs. Heavy video editing and graphics work.

Looking at 2 of these:http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16820139132

plus a raid0 controller

The problem being I cannot find a raid0 controller on newegg without a ton of complaints.



As a side issue, for slow storage I was looking at 4 of these : http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16822136513
(currently the best $ / gb on new egg according to http://forre.st/storage

 

[ViviTheMage]

If you do go mechanical, you might want to check some benchmarks on the 5400RPM GREEN drives, compared to the 7200RPM ones.

 

[alyarb]

get the samsung F2EG 1.5TB. much better drive IMO. mine are idling at 33 C in my furnace of a case.

 

[pjkenned]

ICH10R all you need for Raid 0. For slow storage, Hitachi 2TB. They just work but are not the fastest.

 

[Zolty]

ICH10R all you need for Raid 0. For slow storage, Hitachi 2TB. They just work but are not the fastest.

I can't find this in just a card, I don't really want to rip out the whole board just to add a better raid controller. Any suggestions?

 

[Zolty]

If you do go mechanical, you might want to check some benchmarks on the 5400RPM GREEN drives, compared to the 7200RPM ones.

Why is that?

For the OS and programs I am looking for speed and reliability.

For storage I am looking for lowest $/GB.

 

[Blain]

I can't find this in just a card, I don't really want to rip out the whole board just to add a better raid controller. Any suggestions?

What MB are you running right now?

 

[Zolty]

What MB are you running right now?

http://www.newegg.com/Product/Produc...82E16813131182

ASUS P5K DELUXE/WIFI-AP LGA 775 Intel P35 ATX Intel Motherboard

 

[pjkenned]

The ICH9R on there is fine for Raid 0. (I think I actually have one of those boards upstairs in a box somewhere).

 

[Infernus]

Yeah unless you're going RAID 5 or 6 onboard ICH9R is fine, look at Areca or Highpoint Tech if you ever go down the RAID 5/6 route. I've 6x1.5TB 7200.11 Seagates (I know not the best performing) running in RAID 6 at around 500mb/sec reading for my 1080p video work.

 

[pjkenned]

Yeah unless you're going RAID 5 or 6 onboard ICH9R is fine, look at Areca or Highpoint Tech if you ever go down the RAID 5/6 route. I've 6x1.5TB 7200.11 Seagates (I know not the best performing) running in RAID 6 at around 500mb/sec reading for my 1080p video work.

I use Areca and Adaptec now (ok there are probably a few LSI based controllers around too). I would reccomend both. Highpoint is cheap, but is still not to the reliability point where I would trust data to them. Plus, if you look around an Adaptec 5805 + BBU lightly used would be $450 or less. Fast cards, well supported since they run in tons of datacenters.

 

[Plester]

Used to use a highpoint rocketraid card with mini-sas to infiniband on an addonics enclosure in raid5, with avid media composer - very fast.