Hello,
I'm planning wether to get a RAID card for my system but I need some advice.
1) Would a RAID config really speed up my system (Premiere, After Effects) or would I just be confortable with more drives and spreading the cache folders on them ?
2) Do I really need 200MB/s + read/write speeds since most of the codecs out there are not even close to these speeds, what is EPIC's by the way ? so are the drives keeping me away from achieving performance or the processing power ?
3) What are your recomendations for buying RAID cards. I would like to start with an internal one and 4 drives for it since I have space inside my case and the external offerings from different vendors are way to expensive for me.
I've been looking at Arecas, Highpoints, LSIs but some of the sites are just crap (on Areca's website I personally can't even understand which is their newest and greatest card and they have loads of models with similar specs).
Which are the specs that affect speed the most, the card's processor, the RAM of the card ?
4) Does the number of drives affect the performance ? For example could I attain better performance with 6 drives instead of 4 in a raid 0 config on the same card ?
5) Do I really need enterprise class drives or do the cards require such drives ? From what I can make of them, enterprise drives have more cache and are guaranteed to last longer
Thanks.
I'm planning wether to get a RAID card for my system but I need some advice.
1) Would a RAID config really speed up my system (Premiere, After Effects) or would I just be confortable with more drives and spreading the cache folders on them ?
2) Do I really need 200MB/s + read/write speeds since most of the codecs out there are not even close to these speeds, what is EPIC's by the way ? so are the drives keeping me away from achieving performance or the processing power ?
3) What are your recomendations for buying RAID cards. I would like to start with an internal one and 4 drives for it since I have space inside my case and the external offerings from different vendors are way to expensive for me.
I've been looking at Arecas, Highpoints, LSIs but some of the sites are just crap (on Areca's website I personally can't even understand which is their newest and greatest card and they have loads of models with similar specs).
Which are the specs that affect speed the most, the card's processor, the RAM of the card ?
4) Does the number of drives affect the performance ? For example could I attain better performance with 6 drives instead of 4 in a raid 0 config on the same card ?
5) Do I really need enterprise class drives or do the cards require such drives ? From what I can make of them, enterprise drives have more cache and are guaranteed to last longer
Thanks.