What about fw800? Can you add fw800 to a pc? Greg Greg Rothschild Photography http://www.gregrothschild.com ----- Original Message ----- From: "Alan K Baker" <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> To: <[email protected]> Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 12:23 AM Subject: [AP] Re: Speed achievement [was: Noob]
> Hello Jean. > > As you've realised, Premiere Pro doesn't care too much where your scratch > disk is situated, but there are a lot of variables with external HDDs, > especially those mounted in caddies. > > USBII is respectably fast, but will not achieve the raw speed of a drive > connected directly to your motherboard. Firewire is even worse. > Unless you have SATAII ports on the backplane of your PC, then USB and > IEE1394 are pretty well all that's available these days, especially since > SCSI is in decline and was always over expensive. > > I tried an external SATAII drive in a caddy once, with SATAII connections > all the way, but the speeds were nowhere near as good as the internal > drives. I guess this was down to the buffering hardware used by the caddy. > > So, my conclusion is that internal 7200RPM SATAII HDDs (preferably two in > RAID 0 configuration) will achieve the highest speeds. > > I only ever use external HDDs for transfers and backups where time is not > of the essence. > > Another thing that tends to be forgotten is that video rendering is > processor intensive and processors that have to work hard can get very > hot. > Preferably use cooling system that is extra efficient and has a > ramp-up/ramp-down facility. > If you don't cool your processor adequately, anything after and including > a P4 will ramp its speed down if it gets overheated. > > Regards, > > Alan. > > www.theatreorgans.co.uk > Admin: ConnArtistes, UKShopsmiths, 2nd Touch & A-P groups > Shopsmith 520 + bits > Flatulus Antiquitus > > ----- Original Message ----- > From: Jean Chang > To: [email protected] > Sent: Monday, August 06, 2007 6:52 AM > Subject: Re: [AP] Noob > > > Hi Alan, > > I keep reading that we should have our scratch disks on a separate hard > drive from the OS. Can you use an external HDD for the scratch disks, or > does it have to be internal? I bought a 320 GB HDD to use as a scratch > disk, but didn't see any improvement in performance, and then someone told > me it has to be internal not external. Is that really the case? > > Thanks, > > Jean > > . > > > [Non-text portions of this message have been removed] > > > > > Yahoo! Groups Links > > > Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/ <*> Your email settings: Individual Email | Traditional <*> To change settings online go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/Adobe-Premiere/join (Yahoo! ID required) <*> To change settings via email: mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] mailto:[EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
