Any advantages to RAID for DV?

[sb]

actually, RAID 0 is theoretically twice as fast. The data stream is split
into two and simultaneously written to two drives at the same time. You can
get up to around 50-75MB of thruput with a RAID 0 system, depending upon the
drives, the RAID card, and whether you are using software RAID or hardware
RAID. Way beyond the requirement for DV though, at about 10MB/seconds (drive
thruput not dv video data rate, which is 3.5mb/sec)

see barefeets.com 
or 
xlr8YourMac.com
for more info.

sb


On 12/13/02 9:00 PM, "Steven Rogers" <srogers1 at austin.rr.com> wrote:

> 
> On Friday, December 13, 2002, at 09:29 PM, Nicolas Kinnan wrote:
> 
>> I'm kind of picky when it comes to dropped frames and whatnot and I
>> was wondering if there is any advantage to setting up, say, a two
>> drive RAID O (I think) for editing DV.
> 
> When a frame gets dropped, its because it didn't get written to the
> drive. No amount of RAID will fix that. Dropped frames are not because
> the drive "forgets" the frame after its written, but because the frame
> doesn't make it to the drive. Most RAID configurations are slower -
> sacrificing speed for data security. Not what you want for DV.
> 
> SR