[NefCanuck]

NOS2Go4Me,Jul 18 2006, 10:35 PM Wrote:RAID-0s are my own personal variety of e-peen. If I can render video a little faster than a standard drive (and sometimes significantly faster) because the sustained write speed on a dual Maxtor SATA-1 RAID-0 is faster than a single SATA1/2 drive... sweet. I've done "cross-renders" to test this theory and it has shaved up to 10-20 minutes per job just because the video editing program waits less time for the drives to write. When you're rendering a lot of stuff over and over (like, say, seasons of insert show here), it's a big time-saver. Also, pretty much everything runs "faster" by some percentage once Windows has loaded. That's always nice. :)
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Okay, I can see the use in your case since you do video editing at home. I look at it for "average users" and I go it's the equivalent of shoving a Nitrous setup into a Focus used for daily commuting. I'm a "power user" but for what I do, RAID is an unecessary expense for the few seconds I might save during my work. I'd rather spend the $ on a better video card or more memory myself. B)

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