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Apr 17, 2000, 2:04 PM
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Re: Todays Hard drives, RAID or STRIPED
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: With todays Hard drives running SCSI at 7,200 to 10,000 rpm do they need to be in a RAID or STRIPED format? or can you run them as individuals without worry?
Striped is always better for video - especially full-res analog.
Since read/write is rapidly distributed across multiple drives, one drive doesn't bear the work of long, sustained activity. Thus, greatly reducing hang ups, etc. 10k rpms are great, but not necessary - especially for dv. Singular drives, when close to full, can't guarantee smooth throughput like raids can.
The main rule: learn the hardware requirements, and buy/use that which exceeds them just a bit. Eg., DV needs 3.5 sustained, but I would buy drives capable of at least 2x that.
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