Hi,
I have been gradually increasing the spec of my pc for video work. I am running windows XP on an Athlon 1900+ cpu (the weakest link now) with 1Gig of pc 2100 DDRAM. I have a 40 gig main hard drive partitioned with Partition Magic so that all the day to day stuff is on one partition and the other partition is just for the video editing which is done using Premiere 6.1 through a Pinnacle Dv500DVD card and also Studio 9 for some basic cuts.
I then have an 80gig hard drive for capturing and editing video. With those 2 hard drives and a DVD Rom and a DVR writer that used up all my IDE slots.
I needed more space to store projects i was working on so purchased a 160 gig hard drive and connected it via a pci ide card which offered me another 4 ide slots.
My question (finally). How fast will the 160 gig drive that is on the pci card work? Would it be suitable to capture and edit to or will the PCI bus be swamped with the video data from the DV500 card? In other words, can i simply assume that this drive can be used in exactly the same way as the others or are there restrictions imposed by the system, and if so would there be a better way to configure it?
Thanks in advance,
Mike
1. depending upon pci card , and if faster than a ata33 then yes , no problem using to edit from/to.
have a 120gb ata100 on a ata 133 pci card with my rt2000 at home.
2.
a. install card
b. connect drive as master to the ide cable , making sure it is a ata66 and above cable , i.e 80 wire
c. power up pc and then right click on my computer
d. select manage
e. select storage
f. select disk management
g. select unformatted drive in list
h. right click and format