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SATA enclosure for my laptop

post #1 of 8
4/1/05 at 9:19pm
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Here's the plan. I just bought a Dell 6000 laptop with plans to do some heavy video editing. My previous laptop is 2.5 years old and Firewire external enclosure method was only getting about 15MB/s.



Now that SATA enclosures are available, they're definitely the best choice for notebook editing. (I think). So basically I'm planning to buy an SATA enclosure to put my IDE drive into, specifically the Bytecc ME-740U2SI.

Then I'm planning to get an SATA pcmcia card to connect that enclosure, specifically this SATA card.



Do you think SATA connected like that through the PCMCIA slot (PCI connection) will be fast enough? Fast enough to get at least 30MB/s? Or will going through PCI slow down the transfer? (the notebook has no native SATA ports)


Are there any better setups to get the fastest connection for editing?

Thanks.
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post #2 of 8
4/2/05 at 1:19am
What type of video are you editing?
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post #3 of 8
4/2/05 at 2:30am
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Originally Posted by radiowave
What type of video are you editing?

DV footage in Adobe Premiere mostly. So with its real-time previewing, HDD transfer speed is a big concern.
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post #4 of 8
4/6/05 at 11:05pm
Do you mean DV25?? 4:1:1? If so, the sata drives will perform very well, great! In fact, even 4200 rpm drives work well when capturing DV25. For editing you'll need 5200 rpm drives. A lot goes into a drives ability to sustain data throughput.

Here's a link:

http://www.dvinfo.net/conf/showthrea...threadid=41293
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post #5 of 8
4/21/05 at 9:35pm
Recently received a Hypersonic EX7 (Clevo D900T) for video editing (Pinnacle Liquid Edition 6.1) and got a PCMCIA SATA card for $24.85 from shopnow123.safeshopper.com (complete w/ mini-CD driver); external SATA enclosure and 250 GB Hitachi SATA bare drive from newegg for under $200 complete. Was a little rusty on Windows HD installation, but I figured it out, and now my external SATA HD seems to work just fine. I also got a 200 GB triple input (USB2/FW/SATA) BUSLink external unit from Provantage for $209. I'll perform my own "benchmark" tests in transferring the same 6 GB data file from the BUSLink to the internal RAID 0 HD over the three interfaces, time them and compare the results. I'll also post them here. BTW, the PCMCIA SATA card supports 2 drives. At least on my notebook, I could make an external SATA drive bootable, where I can't with external USB2 or FW drives, apparently.
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post #6 of 8
4/21/05 at 10:19pm
wouldn't you need a 7200 rpm drive? i'm used to editing smoothly with a 7200 then agian i don;t knwo much about SATA.
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post #7 of 8
4/22/05 at 4:09pm
The external SATA is 7200 rpm while (as of now, at least) internal notebook SATA drives are limited to 5400 rpm. Internal PATA HD's can be 7200 rpm.
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post #8 of 8
4/22/05 at 6:28pm
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Originally Posted by Clarence Larson
I'll perform my own "benchmark" tests in transferring the same 6 GB data file from the BUSLink to the internal RAID 0 HD over the three interfaces, time them and compare the results.
Definitely looking forward to your findings!!
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