1. I am wondering how much money I need to put into additional hard drives in order to not have them be the bottleneck for FPS when recording with FRAPS. It's just too much it seems for one HDD, even an SSD, to be both reading the game files and simultaneously trying to write the video infomation to the same hard drive.
Therefore I assume I should go with a separate hard drive/s. Would one Samsung F3 7200 Spinpoint drive do the trick, or am I looking at needing to do RAID 0 with multiple drives in an attempt to get better write throughput?
My friend records at 1080P to 3 drives in a RAID 0, but I'm wondering if that is overkill. The computer I will be recording with is an i7 920 @ 3.8ghz, GTX 470, 6 GB RAM, 1680x1050 resolution, currently just have an x-25 m 160 gb with no trim support as my os/games drive.
2. I am also putting together a video editing rig to run Premiere and After Effects on to edit and render video. I hear from some of those professional guys that they have a separate drive each for boot/os/apps, "scratch" (not even sure what that is?), source footage, and renders. That way one hard drive will not have to do double duty reading/writing when rendering.
Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about, and how necessary it is (I'm not a professional, just a hobby video editor). I won an x-25m 160GB SSD in a BC2 competition, so I was going to use that as a boot/os/apps disk, then get a 1TB drive for source and a 500gb drive for renders. Is that stupid?
Therefore I assume I should go with a separate hard drive/s. Would one Samsung F3 7200 Spinpoint drive do the trick, or am I looking at needing to do RAID 0 with multiple drives in an attempt to get better write throughput?
My friend records at 1080P to 3 drives in a RAID 0, but I'm wondering if that is overkill. The computer I will be recording with is an i7 920 @ 3.8ghz, GTX 470, 6 GB RAM, 1680x1050 resolution, currently just have an x-25 m 160 gb with no trim support as my os/games drive.
2. I am also putting together a video editing rig to run Premiere and After Effects on to edit and render video. I hear from some of those professional guys that they have a separate drive each for boot/os/apps, "scratch" (not even sure what that is?), source footage, and renders. That way one hard drive will not have to do double duty reading/writing when rendering.
Anyone have any idea what I'm talking about, and how necessary it is (I'm not a professional, just a hobby video editor). I won an x-25m 160GB SSD in a BC2 competition, so I was going to use that as a boot/os/apps disk, then get a 1TB drive for source and a 500gb drive for renders. Is that stupid?