Re: Upgrading My Computer
I'm with Jackie on this one. For video editing lots of ram and CPU power. The i7 is an amazing choice if you can afford it.
Hard drives, depends what sort of video editing you do but for huge HD files, faster drives would help a lot. Have you considered the VelociRaptors? A bit pricey but they're 10k rpm in 2.5" form factor and significantly faster. Instead of RAID0 I would go with multiple individual drives for each type of media. Video drive, Audio, Scratch, Export Drive etc. Is not the read / write speed that is the bottleneck but the low access time mechanical drives suffer from. This could be reduces when a drive doesn't need to read and write several files at the same time.
SSD for OS, Applications and Page file I would say is a must. Can't believe anyone would disagree on this one since they make such a huge difference in system responsiveness and multitasking.
i7 with 8GB-16GB RAM
Win7 Pro x64
60G SSD
2-4 Data Drives
Velociraptors if you can afford them
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