While there is a certain joy involved in building your own video editing system, it usually takes time. If you find yourself in need of a pre-built system, check out the Cerise Eight-Core Workstation. Inside the Silverstone case is the excellent Intel S5000XVN motherboard and processors, a 3Ware RAID controller with four Seagate enterprise-class hard drives, configured as a speed-optimized RAID 5. The system boots from a 1TB, 7200rpm Hitachi SATA hard drive. The reviewer noted that the Cerise comes with a basic set of software: Roxio Easy Media Creator 9 and Adobe Reader, though by the time the Cerise is made available to the public, it would include a wide array of video editing and disc authoring software, preinstalled. Benchmark tests showed a data transfer rate of 69.2MB/sec average. Access time was 13.6ms, with a burst transfer rate of 167.7MB/sec. The array was blazing fast, scoring 103.8MB/sec. CPU utilization was almost non-existent, registering only 0.8%. For this kind of speed, it’s no wonder you’d have to pay a pretty penny. Nonetheless, the custom components and configuration, not to mention the powerful hardware make it worth every single cent.