Data storage devices: room to move: a quick overview of storage considerations for video.(Post Production)(List)

Publication: Videomaker

Publication Date: 22-DEC-07

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There are many considerations for storage when you're dealing with video, especially if you're storing HD video. You need room on a hard drive for capturing footage. You need a scratch drive for rendering effects. You need an optical drive for outputting your projects. You might need an archive system, too.

With all the need for storage, where do you start? Well, by reading this sentence, you've taken the first step in realizing that storage is a vital part of your video workflow. We'll try to take you through the rest of the way.

On the Inside

Your editing computer has at least one hard drive. This drive is used to boot your computer and also to store your applications. You could capture video to this drive, but the better way is to capture to a different hard drive. (A lot goes on behind the scenes on your computer, all requiring a lot of hard drive writes. These writes accumulate and degrade the performance of the drive for anything else you need to do with it.) You can add another drive fairly easily if you know what interface your machine uses.

I Need More Space--Quick!

The most common interfaces that data moves through on its way to or from storage media (on the type of computer system most of us use) are ATA, SATA, eSATA, USB 2.0 and FireWire. ATA and SATA are internal interfaces, eSATA...

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