hard drive storage for encoding

[phate321]

i do encoding and compression for movies and shit. i was wondering what kind of storage everybody has if you r into doing this. right now i have a 160gb western digital for my boot drive. then i have an additional 500gb WD for storage.

[Steve Awesome]

Boot is two 74GB 10K RPM drives at RAID 0 (boot is super fast)
Content drive is two 500 GB SATA drives at RAID 1

[phate321]

do you think raid is worth it with a 160gb and 500gb drives?

[Steve Awesome]

do you think raid is worth it with a 160gb and 500gb drives?

RAID 1 is always worth it. No complaints here.

[u-Bob]

Boot is two 74GB 10K RPM drives at RAID 0

lemme guess, raptors

[tony286]

Boot is two 74GB 10K RPM drives at RAID 0 (boot is super fast)
Content drive is two 500 GB SATA drives at RAID 1

sounds like a very nice set up

[EdgeXXX]

Boot is two 74GB 10K RPM drives at RAID 0 (boot is super fast)
Content drive is two 500 GB SATA drives at RAID 1

I'm running a nearly identical setup.

[Why]

we store our encodes and masters on a 14TB raid6 array in our office and a lot of that is also backed up on servers in the datacenter and on external harddrives.

[Steve Awesome]

we store our encodes and masters on a 14TB raid6 array in our office and a lot of that is also backed up on servers in the datacenter and on external harddrives.

According to SNIA (Storage Networking Industry Association), the definition of RAID 6 is: "Any form of RAID that can continue to execute read and write requests to all of a RAID array's virtual disks in the presence of any two concurrent disk failures."

Dammmn! Nice. If I shot more content I'd do that.