Selecting an Editing Drive
When it comes to editing, one of the major investments you’ll need to make is a suitable editing drive. Forget single drive units. Although you can of course edit from a single drive, you won’t have the capacity, speed, or redundancy you’ll need for editing. Instead, consider the criteria discussed in the following sections when purchasing a media or edit drive.
RAID
You might have heard the term RAID (Redundant Array of Independent Disks) before. Basically, RAID is some fancy math that allows multiple drives to act as a single drive to the OS while offering various levels of redundancy. When it comes to redundancy and what are referred to as RAID levels, here is what you should know:
• RAID 0 is a striped array, meaning ...
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