This will also reduce case temps, increase airflow inside the case, and reduce power draw. It was really tight with all those drives in my computer's case. I now have a need to add another free standing hard drive to my system, so to free up room inside my case, I decided to get the four RAIDed drives out of there and into an external case. I typically work with AVCHD 1080i60 (recorded by my Canon HF20 at 24mbps) and DVCPRO 720p60 footage (recorded on P2 media at 100mbps), and I was getting enough transfer speed to comfortably edit multicam timelines. I was getting decent enough read and write speeds for the work I was doing, and I never had a problem with the controller dropping the RAID configuration, so I stuck with the motherboard's controller. I know that everyone recommends an external RAID controller for best performance, but cost was a factor. ![]() ![]() I previously had the 4x1TB RAID5 in my computer case connected to my Gigabyte GA-X58A-UD3R motherboard's Intel ICH10R SATA controller, which has 3.0Gbps SATA connectors. I use this RAID to store all the media for the current project I'm working on, while OS and programs are stored on a separate hard drive. I recently decided to move my four 1TB drive RAID5 setup out of my computer case and into an external enclosure.
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