Looks like my upgrade was worth it

[M A V I C]

A few times a year I have to build photo galleries in a limited amount of time. Knowing that constant reading and writing from the same drive really slows this down, I got a dual bay FW800 enclosure and would read from one drive and write to the other. I've used this for several years.

Since I travel when I do this, I use my laptop. Obviously laptop drives are often a bit slower as well. I was using my stock 120GB drive. My enclosure had a 400GB and 160GB PATA drive. Obviously older.

I did a little benchmark to see how I did with performance on the new HD I put in my laptop - a Hitachi 7200 RPM 500GB drive.

Stock HD - 83 seconds
Dual bay enclosure - 34 seconds
Hitachi 7K500 - 26 seconds

With the dual bay enclosure, creating the galleries would take 3-4hrs. I'm excited to see they will take less with the new drive, and I wont have to haul the enclosure around now. I am putting my old HD in a 2.5" enclosure so I can have some redundancy. The new drive benefits a ton from only being 1/5th full where as the 120 only had about 20GB free.

It'll be interesting to see how well this works with Final Cut. I usually have the video files on one drive, the scratch disk on another, and the boot drive as a third drive. Now it will all be one drive.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

[Racer X]

yeah, but how does this effect the wife's sexiness?

[M A V I C]

Fill, yeah but the resulting galleries go on a disc and thus I need the DVD burner.

The wife needs a new MB to replace her PB.

[Racer X]

you going with something with more capacity to flesh out the storage? Maybe a bigger battery to increase runtime?

[Racer X]

there is NO WAY I would tell my partner her PB wasn't adequate.

[Filliam H. Muffman]

An external burner would be clunky to bring along but could be 2x-3x faster.

[deckeda]

Even with a fast internal I would still expect an external RAID to speed things up more, if it had modern drives in it.

[M A V I C]

Racer, I can't of a good response so you win this round. You get me thinking about my wife...

Filliam H. Muffman wrote:
An external burner would be clunky to bring along but could be 2x-3x faster.

I burn one master, then it goes in a duplicator with 10 drives.

deckeda wrote:
Even with a fast internal I would still expect an external RAID to speed things up more, if it had modern drives in it.

I think two separate drives would work faster than a RAID. But for me to get more modern drives, I'd pretty much have to get a new enclosure. This drive only cost me $60.