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Jason S
posted 04-12-1999 08:24 PM           
Im building a new computer now and I was wondering what kind of Hard drive I should get for non linear editing. Should I go with a SCSI drive or the Medea VideoRaid drive? The Medea drive costs about $1000 and its has 13gig with 15mb sustained. What you guys think?

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Jay
posted 04-13-1999 05:49 AM           
I've only used UW SCSI, but I heard that the VideoRaid drives are every bit as good as SCSI for most video uses. I think UW SCSI and Ultra2 SCSI run faster, but that the extra speed is only used when doing Serial Digital or uncompressed video (like off a Media 100 card). But as far a compressed video (3:1+ MJPEG), Medea is probably fast enough. It's also pretty cheap too. I would go for it if I were you. Good luck.

ps. Don't forget, Promise FastTrck cards do the same thing with cheap Ultra ATA drives that the VideoRaids do. This could also save money in building a system.

jay

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