Thanks for posting this, Mike. I've been wondering about a portion of what is discussed in this video just this past week. That is, how fast does my hard drive go?
I've always thought that when editing either photos or video, the files need to be on your internal hard drive since no external connection was fast enough.
Towards the middle of the video, Larry Jordan stresses the relationship of the speed of accessing storage devices compared to the speed of hard drives themselves, which he places at 120 MB/second, unfortunately without saying whether he is speaking of 54,000 rpm, 72,000 rpm, or solid state drives.
In general, he is saying that folks selling fast connections don't bother to tell you that it won't matter what the connection speed is, you won't get faster than your hard drive speed, the 120MB/second.
In this chart from the video, right below USB3, which I have, I've added eSata since I have both the connection and a drive storage case capable of delivering it.
Does it make sense to free up my (getting uncomfortably full) hard drives to give the OS empty working space and pull my images and video from external drives?
thanks,
Paz
Lenovo W70l; 1.6 GHz, i7 quad core, Win 7, 64 bit, 16 gigs DDR-3 RAM; NVIDIA Quadro FX 2800; Two 1T 7200 internal drives; BluRay burner