Moxtelling wrote: I have a i7 920 2.67 Ghz - 12 GB DDR3 RAM and 2 X 1,5 Seagate ATA. I mostly edit AVCHD 720 50P. Similar to what I plan to build in 2-3 months, except I will have the slightly newer i7 930 and 3 Sata hard drives - 320G software + 320G scratch + 1T data I also plan to buy a Canon Vixia HFS10 and will be editing AVCHD at, most likely, the full HD resolution (which I will, until I someday buy a BluRay burner, downconvert at the end to have Encore author to DVD... these are just family video, nothing professional) According to my calculations, based on Canon saying 2:55 will fit in a 32Gig space, the AVCHD files are about 11Gig per hour... which is actually less than the about 13gig per hour for the DV AVI files I now use with my old computer Since you don't mention RAID, I presume you do not notice any data transfer problems with reading AVCHD off of a regular hard drive?
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