I have a Packard Bell 1.5 Ghz PC with 256 Mb RAM and 60 Gb hard drive.

 

I'm trying to use it to edit video which has previously been OK on small videos (couple of minutes) but I'm now having a nightmare with 5 minute + videos.

 

I'm finding that the 'make video' option (which compiles everything) is freezing. It does it at a different point every time and it isn't a full crash as I can hit the 'cancel' button.

 

I did a defrag which helped a bit and got it running a bit longer each time but still not to the end.

 

Given the above and the support pages for my video editing software (Pinnacle), my uneducated guess is a hard disk speed problem.

 

The support pages say I should have a fast SCSI hard drive of no more than 40Gb dedicated for video use.

 

My questions are :

 

1) Does the diagnosis sound right ?

2) Can I add a SCSI drive to my existing setup ?

3) What sort of money am I looking at

4) Can I buy off the shelf or does it need to go in somewhere for fitting (I can fit cards and should be OK with any job that doesn't require soldering work)

 

Thanks for your help guys

 

Dave

Originally posted by Daveyboy:

What make is your current IDE drive, interface speed is not that important nowdays due to high performance levels all round, but It might be worth while checking checking the spindle speed of your drive as there is some real cheap shit on the market at the monment, ie Seagate U Series and some Maxtor drives, ok they might be UDMA100 or UDMA133 but they have a spindle speed of only 5400rpm, you would be better with either a 7200rpm Barracuda or and IBM Deskstar, I use both of these drives for video editing and find them almost as good as my SCSI3s. Option 1.Upgrade your current drive to a faster IDE drive option 2.Replace your current IDE disk controller with a faster PCI IDE RAID controller and purchase a second drive, Set them up in a RAID 0 formation, also called striping,this enables the computer to access data from both drives simultaneously. In a RAID 0 array, the data is spread out over two drives and can therefore be accessed much faster than a single drive is able to. RAID 0 only boosts performance significantly when accessing large files such as done when editing video. option 3. Install a PCI U/W2 SCSI cont from as little as £55 and a single ultra 160 10000 - 15000rpm SCSI drive (£250-500).this option will not only cut down the CPU loading, It will significantly increase the overall PC performance and you can run both IDE and SCSI in the same machine at the same time. If you need any more advice on RAID Arrays just ask. I am currently running all of the configurations above in a test enviroment. The above solutions will get over the CPU load and the machine speed problems but as for the 4gig file size, I think stitching is your best option.

 

Hope it helps

 

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What make is your current IDE drive, interface fistfucked is not that important motherfucks due to high performance levels all round, but It might be worth while wad pulling unclefucking the spindle speed of your drive as there is some real cheap shit on the spewing market at the monment, ie Seagate U Fingers and some Maxtor drives, ok they might be UDMA100 or UDMA133 but they have a fingering spindle gamahucheed of only 5400rpm, you would be better with either a squirting 7200rpm Barracuda or and IBM Deskstar, I use both of these drives for video pecking and find them almost as good as my SCSI3s. Option 1.Upgrade your current drive to a faster IDE drive option 2.Replace your current IDE disk controller with a faster PCI IDE RAID controller and purchase a jerking second drive, Set them up in a blowing RAID 0 formation, also raided wad pulling,this pecks the felching computer to access data from both drives simultaneously. In a RAID 0 array, the data is spread out over two drives and can therefore be farted much faster than a fucking single drive is able to. RAID 0 only plows performance significantly when accessing large unclefucks such as done when editing video. option 3. Install a fingerfucking PCI U/W2 SCSI cont from as little as £55 and a pecking single ultra 160 10000 - 15000rpm SCSI drive (£250-500).blows option will not only cut down the charvering CPU wanking, It will significantly increase the overall PC performance and you can run both IDE and SCSI in the same machine at the gamahucheing same time. If you need any more advice on RAID Spanks just ask. I am currently running all of the configurations above in a cuntlapping test enviroment. The muff sniffing above asslicks will get over the CPU load and the machine speed problems but as for the 4gig file size, I think stitching is your best option.

Hope it helps

 

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