Optimizing Hardrives for video

[wernerd2]

I have a seagate ata 100 40g hardrive I am adding a western digital ata 100 60g hardrive for video rendering. What is the proper way to optimize these drives to work together well for video work ?

[BoF]

I would recommend not to mount them into the same ide channel. I'm pretty sure it will increase transfer speed from one hd to another... and the use of a ntfs or an ext3 file system.

[wernerd2]

What about the issue of master drive and slave drive and how to partition the new drive ?

[BoF]

ok, your configuration is quite the same as me, here is mine:

ide0:
master -> hd 80Go:
1. 20 Go NTFS winxp pro + softwares
2. ~60 Go NTFS data storage1
slave -> nothing (rack 5.1/4 for friend's hd)

ide1:
master -> dvd
slave -> hd 40Go:
1. 15Go NTFS data storage2
2. ~25 Go NTFS data storage3

edit: always store data into a different partition/drive than your OS!