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Torsten Blomfeldt · September 4th, 2003, 06:46 AM

I do now have a 40 GB harddrive. For videoediting I shall buy a new and faster 120GB harddrive.

I therefore wonder: Is it best to have the new harddrive as master (head-drive)?

If I have the 40 GB harddrive as master (head-drive), can I then get all the effect from the new 120 GB harddrive when I’m working with videoediting?

The new harddrive as master or slave? What is best, and why? Or doesn’t it matter?

Lars Siden · September 4th, 2003, 08:35 AM

Hi ( or "HEJ" as we say in Swedish ) ,

As long as you keep them on seperate IDE-channels you'll be just fine.

Rule of thumb: Have the app/system disk on one IDE channel, and the working disk on another IDE channel ( you may want to have the temp-storage on the system disk ).

What you want to avoid is having the heads on the HDD going back&forward feeding 2 programs(or more) at the same time.

You also want to be able to use the full 133mhz bus for each HDD, therefore if possible, you should avoid having system and work disk on the same channel.

That said, I can confuse you a bit more - If you buy a disk with 8mb write cache, then you're minimizing the impact of having 2 disks on the same IDE channel.

// Lazze

Torsten Blomfeldt · September 4th, 2003, 09:11 AM

Lars, the HDD I'm gona buy is Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9. 133 MB/s, 7200, Cache 8 MB, access 9 ms. And will you please e-mail me and explain these complex things in our language so I am sure to understand you right.

Gints Klimanis · September 4th, 2003, 12:51 PM

>Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9. 133 MB/s, 7200, Cache 8 MB

This is definitely a high performance disk at this point in time.

133 MB/s is the bus rate. You attach the disk to the bus. The disk can transfer up to the bus rate, but will almost never reach that level of performance unless the data is read from the cache.

7200 RPM (rotations/minute) is the disk rotational speed. The faster the RPM,
the higher the potential data rate and disk head seek time.
Disk heads have to move from data chuck to data chunk, which is called seeking. Put your money into 7200 rather than 5400 RPM disks if you are doing video editing. Faster disks and disk configurations (RAID) exist, but they are very expensive.

Cache 8 MBytes. This is a fast memory storage for disk data.
Data accessed from this memory reads/writes much faster than the disk itself.
The cache helps with disk performance by buffering a small amount of data (8 MBytes) so that the disk can transfer that data to the platter on its own time. The sytem can then just write to the disk without having to wait for the disk to write the data to the platter.

Barry Gilbert · September 4th, 2003, 01:45 PM

I did a search on this model and came up with a pretty good evaluation of it at this site here...Hope this helps

http://www.thetechlounge.com/review.php?REVIEWDIR=maxtor_200_7200

September 4th, 2003, 06:46 AM	#1
Torsten Blomfeldt Regular Crew Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Sweden Posts: 34	master or slave? I do now have a 40 GB harddrive. For videoediting I shall buy a new and faster 120GB harddrive. I therefore wonder: Is it best to have the new harddrive as master (head-drive)? If I have the 40 GB harddrive as master (head-drive), can I then get all the effect from the new 120 GB harddrive when I’m working with videoediting? The new harddrive as master or slave? What is best, and why? Or doesn’t it matter? __________________ "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."

September 4th, 2003, 08:35 AM	#2
Lars Siden Major Player Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: Sweden, Stockholm Posts: 469	Hi ( or "HEJ" as we say in Swedish ) , As long as you keep them on seperate IDE-channels you'll be just fine. Rule of thumb: Have the app/system disk on one IDE channel, and the working disk on another IDE channel ( you may want to have the temp-storage on the system disk ). What you want to avoid is having the heads on the HDD going back&forward feeding 2 programs(or more) at the same time. You also want to be able to use the full 133mhz bus for each HDD, therefore if possible, you should avoid having system and work disk on the same channel. That said, I can confuse you a bit more - If you buy a disk with 8mb write cache, then you're minimizing the impact of having 2 disks on the same IDE channel. // Lazze __________________ Sony HDR-CX130,Canon 5DMKII,i7 930@4.0, 12gb memory, 3x SSD + 2x1Tb(stripe), Geforce 480, Dual 24", Win 7 x64

September 4th, 2003, 09:11 AM	#3
Torsten Blomfeldt Regular Crew Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Sweden Posts: 34	Lars Lars, the HDD I'm gona buy is Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9. 133 MB/s, 7200, Cache 8 MB, access 9 ms. And will you please e-mail me and explain these complex things in our language so I am sure to understand you right. __________________ "The artist is nothing without the gift, but the gift is nothing without work."

September 4th, 2003, 01:45 PM	#5
Barry Gilbert Regular Crew Join Date: Jul 2003 Location: Winnsboro, SC Posts: 96	I did a search on this model and came up with a pretty good evaluation of it at this site here...Hope this helps http://www.thetechlounge.com/review.php?REVIEWDIR=maxtor_200_7200 __________________ "No matter how good she looks; somebody, somewhere is tried of putting up with her crap." Randy Brazell

September 4th, 2003, 12:51 PM	#4
Gints Klimanis Inner Circle Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: San Jose, CA Posts: 2,222	>Maxtor Diamondmax Plus 9. 133 MB/s, 7200, Cache 8 MB This is definitely a high performance disk at this point in time. 133 MB/s is the bus rate. You attach the disk to the bus. The disk can transfer up to the bus rate, but will almost never reach that level of performance unless the data is read from the cache. 7200 RPM (rotations/minute) is the disk rotational speed. The faster the RPM, the higher the potential data rate and disk head seek time. Disk heads have to move from data chuck to data chunk, which is called seeking. Put your money into 7200 rather than 5400 RPM disks if you are doing video editing. Faster disks and disk configurations (RAID) exist, but they are very expensive. Cache 8 MBytes. This is a fast memory storage for disk data. Data accessed from this memory reads/writes much faster than the disk itself. The cache helps with disk performance by buffering a small amount of data (8 MBytes) so that the disk can transfer that data to the platter on its own time. The sytem can then just write to the disk without having to wait for the disk to write the data to the platter.