Little help please, new to video...

[Hierotochan]

Hi there,

I'm trying to set up a mini-studio here on my laptop.

What I have is:
MacbookPro 15.4" 2.5G C2D 250Gb HD 512Mb Graphics & 3Gb RAM (soon to be 4Gb),
Flip Mino HD 4GB,
one external Firewire drive (Lacie Porche 120GB),
2xSonyEricsson M2 USB adapters with 2x4GB M2 cards
& a bunch of programs & ideas!

I'm only looking to make a few little Skateboard/Snowboard videos
(have obligatory .5x wide-angle Hama magnetic lens for Flip on it's way).

I want to get the 2x 4GB M2 sticks working as a Mirrored RAID/scratch disk
to help speed up my system.
Dose anyone know why now, after I've formatted them & setup the RAID
in Disk Utility that it keeps crashing my MacbookPro?
Getting the grey blind sweeping down the screen & then the restart message pops up.

Any ideas?

Thanks.


J.

 

[spice weasel]

Why are you trying to use the memory sticks as a RAIDed scratch disk? Use the firewire drive instead.

 

[bigbossbmb]

and mirroring wouldn't give you a speed increase anyway

 

[Hierotochan]

OK, the Firewire drive is full of stuff I moved off my hard drive to make room for other essential crap.
I was planning to do the video project in sections & move them onto it when finished to keep the M2 sticks freed up.

The mirrored RAID it's not mirrored anymore,
I've sorted it by a combination of Format/Partition/GUID/Format... Etc.
So they're set up as striped & not crashing my system now!

As for it not speeding up my system, I was told that a RAID drive with large blocks would help!?
When I had the idea I hadn't looked into the different types of RAID,
but from what I understand now the stripped is better for what I want.

Have I got any of this right?


J.

 

[bigbossbmb]

you're not getting what were saying... using the M2 sticks as your scratch in RAID or not is an awful decision... just get a firewire 3.5" hard drive.