Advice please: which is best? Internal or external for scratch drive?

My new iMac has so much hard drive space, I could use its internal drive for my scratch disk, as I don't do that much FCE. Is that a mistake? Is it better to have the media on an external drive?

There's a lot of debate about this.
Will it work? Yes.
Will it work fine? Yes, until your disk gets about 50-60% full. After that point as you use up more & more space you may notice an increasing incidence of dropped frames, stutters, etc. This is due to the physical characteristics of the hard drive. I limit my system HD to about 20-30% full (not including video files) and I don't have problems editing with FCE.
Is it preferable to use an external drive? Some people are convinced so in all cases. Certainly if you're doing a lot of video editing an external drive is a good idea. And it's always a good idea for backup !

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"fools step in where angels fear to tred"
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And 1 Seagate 160 GB ATA/100 8 MG Cache drive in the front ATA/66 Bus Bay.
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(Which would be better performance wise and for stability?)
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After that, I'll store the drive until I can afford to get an external OWC case for it.
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I suspect putting a ATA/100 drive on the ATA/66 Bus might hamper performance. And suspect using a SATA controller card in a "PCI" slot isn't as good as having a True SATA Bus, performance wise either.
I was just wondering which would be the better way to go for performance and stability?
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I'd really appreciate some help with this. Thank You.

beardedbob wrote:
I want to use the second new drive for a Photoshop Scratch disk and for temp video file work.
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I suspect putting a ATA/100 drive on the ATA/66 Bus might hamper performance. And suspect using a SATA controller card in a "PCI" slot isn't as good as having a True SATA Bus, performance wise either.
I was just wondering which would be the better way to go for performance and stability?
With those applications and the intended purpose for the 2d drive, i.e. video and PS scratch, then go SATA. No question, best performance (without considering the cost of SCSI) to be found with SATA even using a PCI SATA controller. PATA been left behind, no ones doing development anymore.
I would suggest partitioning that 2d drive because PS and FS scratch disks are different in kind. FS needs unfragmented media, otherwise dropped frames and sync issues. PS scratch media are temporary and messy.
Depending on the drives and card, SATA drives should bench (with something like Intech QuickBench) at the high end of around 80-90 MB/sec. I haven't bought a PATA HD in years, but best I ever saw was around 60 MB/sec. 80-90 MB/sec is still very good even if say you can bench better in Mac Pro.
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I also have the two-port Sonnet Tempo, which is actually just a purple Firmtek Seritek 2-port card. I bought the Siig first, having to get it (and a bunch of other stuff) shipped overseas. I later bought the Sonnet because I could get it locally although for a higher price; with overseas taxes, customs, etc. for only the card --- it's a wash.
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