Raid 0 ?

[Dror Levi]

I have i7 machine with 8gb ram.
Tomorrow I will be getting the GTX 570 and and additional 8 GB.
I was thinking of adding a 4T raid 0 to the computer but was not sure if it will make much of a different.
I am currently using Sony Vegas and I am not sure what to expect from CS5 as far as hardware.

[Peter Manojlovic]

What kind of source footage are you working with?
What's your workflow?

[Chris Medico]

Before you can decide if RAID0 would be helpful you need to determine exactly where your bottlenecks are.

If you are working with a compressed format such as MPEG or H.264 a RAID0 setup has no real value.

If you are working with uncompressed video then its an absolute requirement (unless you go to a proxy workflow).

Your average desktop hard drive can easily serve several streams of MPEG or H.264 without choking.

Windows has a performance monitor that will help you determine where your bottlenecks are located. Unless you are using very high bitrate video your drives won't be the bottleneck.

[Dror Levi]

Thank you for taking the time.
Here is a link from Adobe TV that talks about raid and SSD
Maximizing CS5.5 Performance With Intel Xeon Processors - Maximizing Performance with Intel Solid State Drives | Adobe TV

[Peter Manojlovic]

Hey Dror...

You'll find that most people use SSD's for their OS system at the current time..
When things improve, you might see a shift away from hard disks. But there's no mass migration yet.

But for the most part, people requiring Raid 0 are still using hard drives.