Any advantages to RAID for DV?

[sb]

an external FW drive should be plenty fast enough for DV video. If you are
getting dropped frames you either have a lesser performing FW drive (Que
comes to mind), or your prefs are not set up correctly.

My favorite external FW drives is made by WiebeTech. You can buy a bare
case, take your IDE drive out of your poorly performing FW case and install
it in a Wiebe case. I've also used a 120gb La Cie without dropping frames.

I have several G4 towers with multiple internal drives. One machine has 6 of
them connected to two PCI IDE cards. I have them striped as RAID, but I use
them for uncompressed video, not for DV. Heat hasn't been an issue.

sb

On 12/13/02 7:29 PM, "Nicolas Kinnan" <nasw at pcmagic.net> wrote:

> Howdy,
> 
> 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.  I know that it must be overkill,
> bandwidth-wise, but I am getting discouraged by dropped frames with a
> single FW drive solution.
> 
> If a RAID is a good idea, does one need a dedicated RAID card?  I have
> a G4 tower, so I might consider mounting the drives inside and this
> makes me wonder if heat could become an issue.
>