Intensity Pro - Looking for a more suitable Hard drive

[sonico67]

I have the Intensity Pro and along with it I bought another internal hard drive and it seems it's not quite what I need for this capture card as it barely matches the minimum speed for high def recording at 720p and a lot of the times I get a substantial amount of lost frames that make the video barely playable. I have also noticed that after running the speed test with some data on the hard drive, the results are worse so I always have to format the drive before a new recording, and I would not record more than 10 mins or it'll start dropping frames (sometimes it does it right away). I assume this would be a hard drive issue and so I'm looking to buy a more suitable hard drive for this capture card, any suggestions are appreciated.

Hard drive:
http://www.wdc.com/en/products/produ...sp?driveid=301
Intensity Pro speed test:
http://i13.photobucket.com/albums/a2.../speedtest.jpg

System Specs:
64bit Windows 7
Core 2 Quad Q8300
2x 512GB HD - 4GB RAM

[edDV]

For uncompressed 720p you need two hard drives in RAID zero. For uncompressed 1080i you need three drives in RAID zero. These would be separate from your OS drive C:.

Or you can use the BlackMagic MJPEG codec to compress on-the-fly to a single drive.

[sonico67]

For uncompressed 720p you need two hard drives in RAID zero. For uncompressed 1080i you need three drives in RAID zero. These would be separate from your OS drive C:.

Or you can use the BlackMagic MJPEG codec to compress on-the-fly to a single drive.

I was way off trying to record uncompressed video. I will now use it compressed. It seems to work a lot better. Thanks for your response.