Setting up RAID0

[StrongBlackWoman]

That is an alternative. However, it is not necessary. You are not going to be writing enough information to that disk to justify RAID 0. 1080p runs at around 30MBps max, (absolute max), and a modern hard drive will happily maintain 110MBps throughput. Thus you would be using around 30% of the maximum speed. However an external drive on USB 2 will be saturated at 24MBps, which may not be fast enough. Get a 2TB internal drive, install internally and run the videos on to that.

If you put the OS onto a RAID 0 disk (with three disks in), then if one of those disks goes wrong, you lose all of your operating system. RAID 0 is really bad news for data integrity because it massively increases the chance that you will lose your information.

P.S. opsy = operating system = windows

If you want to reinstall that's your option, but for me, that would take minimum 72 hours to get everything reinstalled, transfer my documents back etc.

The Blackmagic in 1080p uncompressed format runs at around 120Mbps I think, it produces 7.2GB for every minute recorded, and 420GB per hour, if I buy a 2TB internal drive will that be sufficient for the videos?

 

[S_I_N]

And this is an alternative method to setting up RAID? I can just buy two new hard drives and do this?

its still raid just software raid versus hardware raid. Basically the operating system handles it instead of your motherboards raid controller. And as i mentioned on testing I have done in the past it is a tad faster than hardware raid in benchmarking when I did my testing

 

[Diablo]

It really depends if you intend to use an uncompressed format I guess. If you are going to use up 420GB per hour, then no 2TB won't be enough, but if you are going to convert it then it will be fine. I have nothing against you sticking 2 RAIDed drives in, but given your inexperience with RAID, I figured that it would be easier for you.

The software RAID and onboard RAID are pretty similar, unless you pay for a dedicated RAID card, the speeds will be pretty much identical - I bow to S_I_N's testing, so if you have the cash, go for the two drives.

 

[StrongBlackWoman]

It really depends if you intend to use an uncompressed format I guess. If you are going to use up 420GB per hour, then no 2TB won't be enough, but if you are going to convert it then it will be fine. I have nothing against you sticking 2 RAIDed drives in, but given your inexperience with RAID, I figured that it would be easier for you.

The software RAID and onboard RAID are pretty similar, unless you pay for a dedicated RAID card, the speeds will be pretty much identical - I bow to S_I_N's testing, so if you have the cash, go for the two drives.

Seems like that would be my best bet, can you recommend a good HDD maybe?