SATA or IDE drive for HDV editing? at DVinfo.net

Dan Mangos · December 27th, 2005, 11:57 PM

I'm slowly assembling a P4 setup for HDV editing, and would be interested in hearing from users who have used either SATA or EIDE drives for PC editing.
Is SATA more reliable? Faster? Is EIDE adequate? Thanks

Glenn Chan · December 28th, 2005, 02:07 AM

They're the same speed, because the bottleneck is not in the drive interface but the hard drive itself.

Newer models tend to be faster, and newer models tend to be SATA. That extra speed is kind of like the extra speed of SATA versus parallel ATA... it doesn't make a difference if it's not the bottleneck.

December 27th, 2005, 11:57 PM	#1
Dan Mangos New Boot Join Date: Jul 2005 Posts: 5	SATA or IDE drive for HDV editing? I'm slowly assembling a P4 setup for HDV editing, and would be interested in hearing from users who have used either SATA or EIDE drives for PC editing. Is SATA more reliable? Faster? Is EIDE adequate? Thanks

December 28th, 2005, 02:07 AM	#2
Glenn Chan Inner Circle Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Toronto, Canada Posts: 4,750	They're the same speed, because the bottleneck is not in the drive interface but the hard drive itself. Newer models tend to be faster, and newer models tend to be SATA. That extra speed is kind of like the extra speed of SATA versus parallel ATA... it doesn't make a difference if it's not the bottleneck.