The Phrase Cheap and SSD doesn't really compare, it is still about £1 per Gigabyte for SSD's.

No matter how expensive regular drives are at the moment SSD's still have a lot of price to fall to compare with them.

I see the price for HDs is actually starting to recover a little now. Ebuyer have 'save £xx.xx' on most of their drives. For a while SSDs represented good value.

eta: There are some good deals on SSDs too for that matter: http://www.ebuyer.com/268693-corsair-120gb-force-3-s...

Edited by deleted (Wed 23-Nov-11 09:43:25)

Anon,

I think will have to agree to disagree regarding partitioning of a HDD

The mobo in the spec quoted by srj has SATA III and usb3 functionality but it is not being utilized, hence my suggestion to possibly use a solid state SATA III drive for the OS and apps and the addition of external usb3 connectivity - usb3 being on a par with eSATA for transfer speed.

In reply to a post by 12eason:

Better still buy a cheap solid state and ignore disk drives until the supply has recovered?

Write speed may not be sufficient for video editing but read speed would be great for the OS and apps.

In reply to a post by 12eason:

Better still buy a cheap solid state and ignore disk drives until the supply has recovered?

A SSD unit in a video editing machine is a waste of money unless you also got a mechanical as well.
You need space and plenty of it to store the video files and then the final video.

In reply to a post by Anonymous:

4M2,

What will be your suggested spec then? Any other suggestions guys?

Thanks.

Two SATA II drives: one for the OS and apps and the other for working on video files (a SATA III solid state drive could be used for the OS and apps.) At least 8GB of RAM if using Win7 64bit. Nvidia CUDA graphics with 1 GB memory if using Adobe CS4. i5 Quad core processor. usb3 or eSATA for the potential of connecting external drives in the future.

In reply to a post by Anonymous:

Thanks for that sjr. What do you guys think about the setup? Any other suggestions would really be appreciated.

My mate has said he will build it for me if I am able to get the components together when returns from holiday in a couple of weeks time, will also be get discounted windows 7 (student).

Thank you.

If your mate is going to build one then that is even better, because you can get parts you want, not what someone else think you might want.


Get yourself a decent case and power supply to start with, a decent case will give you room to expand and will last for upgrading.


A decent powersupply will give you reliability, well it should do4, I got myself a thermaltake875 modular, form ebuyer, great value for money, there are smaller wattages if you don't need 800watts.

Corsair are good as well, but the thermaltake for the money is really good.

Asus motherboard, socket AM3, the model I got have now gone discontinued, Asrock also do some good boards. Go for a AM3+ socket if you are going for a AMD set up. I can't help you on Intel as I tend to stay away from Intel, so no very little about them

Asus M5A99X EVO 990X Socket AM3+ 8 Channel Audio ATX Motherboard 270698 52 in stock £98.37 £98.37


Corsair 8GB (2x4GB) DDR3 1600MHz XMS3 Memory Kit CL9 1.65V 247677 22 in stock £40.49 £40.49


AMD Phenom II X4 965 Black Edition 3.4GHz Socket AM3 6MB L3 Cache Cache 125W Retail Boxed Processor 186428 34 in stock £111.99 £111.99


Coolermaster HAF 922 Mid Tower Case 164961 21 in stock £85.10 £85.10


Samsung HD103SJ Spinpoint F3 1TB Hard Drive SATAII 7200rpm 32MB Cache - OEM 173804 > 25 in stock £104.93 £104.93

Thermaltake Toughpower XT 875W Modular PSU - 4x PCI-E 8x SATA 234916 23 in stock £89.99 £89.99


LG BH10LS30 10x BD-RE with DVD±RW SATA Blu-Ray Drive - Retail Box with Software 195145 69 in stock £69.99 £69.99

Cart Cart total inc vat: £600.86



Just something I put together quick from ebuyer., still need to add video card,m but the one built in will do the job, I used my built in one for a couple of months with video editing.


Monitor a Hanns-G £113, this is the one that replaced the one I got, I am happy with mine.

blue-ray writer is useful, but disks are still a bit pricey, per Gigabyte they can work out cheaper than DVDs for storing data on.

Have a look and see what you think, This is what I would go for if I was getting a another computer now, maybe I would go for a six core chip.

In reply to a post by 12eason:

I see the price for HDs is actually starting to recover a little now. Ebuyer have 'save £xx.xx' on most of their drives. For a while SSDs represented good value.

eta: There are some good deals on SSDs too for that matter: http://www.ebuyer.com/268693-corsair-120gb-force-3-s...

SSD will only be good value when you can get a 500Gb for around the £100 mark.


Don't get me wrong I think my SSd unit is great and not a bad price, £120 for a 120Gb unit, but good value for money it was not.


thankfully i got a 500Gb drive as well, but do need a larger drive at some point, but got more important things to get, like a shoulder support for my cam corder and a zoom H1 or H2.

Then hopefully the prices of hard drives will be better.

In reply to a post by 4M2:

Anon,

I think will have to agree to disagree regarding partitioning of a HDD

The mobo in the spec quoted by srj has SATA III and usb3 functionality but it is not being utilized, hence my suggestion to possibly use a solid state SATA III drive for the OS and apps and the addition of external usb3 connectivity - usb3 being on a par with eSATA for transfer speed.

A mate of mine was doing video editing on a p4 with a Sata one drive and did a good job most of the time, it was rendering and previewing that it fell down on, which is why I got him to spend a bit of money on a better machine, that is still only a 2Ghx Athlon with Sata II, but it does the trick

Yuk. Over-speced on most parts, and then no graphics card.