Which memory and HDD do you prefer

[redgum]

Having faster hard drives speeds up the process in general. Programs open faster, video files are dealt with more quickly etc., and therefore your editing process is faster, but do you need that? Some do and some don't.
Remember that the whole process needs to be fast, RAM, Graphics card and so on or everything is slowed.
Fast hard drives are essential with high definition simply to handle the load (bigger files).

[vienna1944er]

Which HDD do you prefer

I have always "WD Raptor's" one for the sys-disk, an a other for the "pagefile.sys

In my new case, now I have the >WD VelociRaptor™ < ........ and I love it

a fast beast [4,2ms and max ~125MB min~80MB]
in compare to the old Raptor serie..... most quiet, and extremely cool

It is the systemdisk on hard work, and Everest indicates: he is cooler as all other disk
including disks who are only on, with no works [i.e. the SD media Disk by HD-work session]

friendly greetings from europe\austria\vienna ...old (but not morbid) Hans ;-)

[swsw1550]

Faster the better I say....

Steve

[fluppe85]

And what series of HDD do you use? I've already heard the Raptor and Velociraptor series of WD. Which will also considered?

The WD RE2/RE3 series?
The Seagate Barracuda ES/ES.2? Or will the Cheetah being used?
The Samsung Spinpoint F RAID series?

Which HDD have you used so far to import, edit and export HD and succeeded with it?

Thank you for the advice

[vienna1944er]

Seagate Barracuda ES and ES2 ...... for all other "media" and "scratch" disk's

never coming a "Samsung Spinpoint - vibrator" in my holy LianLI-V2110B NLE case......

old (but not morbid) Hans ;-)

[swsw1550]

WD Velociraptor's are the go, stay aay from the Samsungs, not very good at all.


Steve

[Vidsmith66]

personal preferences

Kingston Ram and Seagate HD's Never had an issue with either in 15+ edit systems, dating back to the old Amiga Flyer and Toaster systems. Have replaced about 10 western digital HD's in both internal and external drives. Also our Maxtor (also owned by Seagate) external drives have held up pretty well, have replaced 2 but for issues like the power switch going bad, etc.