I would like to buy a higher performance hard drive for video capture. I understand the better drives use 1:1 interleaving and track caching. What are the best IDE drives out there to use for video capture?![]()
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get a 7200 rpm hard drive with a 8mb cache....if you order online from newegg.com the maxtor and western digital OEM hard drives come with a 3 year warranty compared to a retail drive that only has a 1 year warranty. the seagate hard drives come with a 5 yr. warranty whether or not you buy OEM or RETAIL....you would do fine with either a SATA or IDE hard drive....prices for SATA hard drives aren't much more than a reg IDE hard drive.....if you live in the USA there is a seagate 160 gb hard drive at CompUsa for $39.99 after mail in and instant rebates....that's a good deal....
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any 7200 rpm drive with 8mb should work just fine (as budz stated above). For best results always try to capture to a drive other than your C drive.
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I suggest Seagate drives, they are very reliable, and if you do have a problem with one, it has a 5yt warranty
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Your answer is Raptor from Western Digital, 10,000 RPM 8 MBcache + 5 year warranty. Sounds like I'm advertising. well it is fast like scsi. You can also use raid configuration ( make sure to choose the correct type) raid is costly because you need the card and more than 2 of the same HD
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I like the Samsung 7200rpm 8mb cache hard drives. They're as fast as any of the others but much quieter and they have a 3 year warranty.
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Originally Posted by INFRATOM
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Seagate, Western Digital
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Why are folks recommending lower RPM drives?
And maybe I missed it but I haven't seen anyone mention SATA drives, which is what I use. It's my understanding that 10K SATA drives are about as fast as it gets depending on manufacturer. -
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Doh, that'd be a good reason. I woulda caught that had it been in the title but I pulled a "didn't read the whole post"... slick eh? LOL
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10k doesn't do anything extra special, 7200rpm is plenty.
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I had two 74G Raptors in a RAID 0 array and now have two 120G Seagate SATA 7200.7 drives in a RAID 0. Tiny real world difference between the two setups, which is why I sold my Raptors on eBay (for nearly the price I paid for them!). I got almost double the storage with the Seagates and have almost the same performance for less money. No brainer.
If you're limited to IDE, set up a RAID 0 array with two drives. If your mobo doesn't have RAID built in, you can pick up a cheap RAID add-in card for $20 to $30 - you won't regret it. The Seagate 5 yr warranty is unmatched by any other manufacturer for 7200 rpm drives - everyone else is only 3 yrs.
In any event, the performance difference between a single 7200 rpm drive and two 7200 rpm drives in RAID 0 is enormous. Remember, a RAID 0 setup aggregates the storage for both drives, so if you're looking at a single 120G drive, you only need two 60G drives in RAID 0 to get 120G storage. -
Originally Posted by Cornbuds
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Originally Posted by KameleOnOff
Even though it's a synthetic benchmark, check out SiSoftware Sandra 2005. It will also show you a general idea of the performance difference between single and 2/4 disk RAID setups. -
Originally Posted by dzachau
If not get an IDE Maxtor DiamondMax Plus 10 8MB cache 7200rpm -
Threadjack: I have a 10K SATA drive and the other day I heard a high pitch whine come from it and my system rebooted on me. The 'whine' lasted about 10 seconds maybe. I've never heard it before or since and have noticed no change in my HD performace.
Someone told me it's my head going bad and is a matter of time before it up and dies on me. Is this the case? The drive is almost 2 yrs. old. I'd like to hook up a RAID 0 with another SATA drive but would rather replace this one completely if it's going to crash on me soon. Any advice? -
According to Computer Power User Magazine RAID 0 does NOT give faster performance -- much to their surprise. For video capture a single 7200 rpm 8 mb cache drive is plenty of performance. Save money.
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Originally Posted by KenJ57
measurable performance gains using a raid-0 (two drive) configuration
when dealing with small and medium size files. Larger files *did* show
performance gains under raid-0 configurations. I'd definitely call a 3 or 4
Gig video a "larger" file. -
Originally Posted by KenJ57
You REALLY notice it when extracting large archives, copying very large files, and of course during video captures. -
There is very little information to base a recommendation on.Buss speed,age of computer,ram,number of hard drives,cpu speed etc.Sata drives are ok,i have 2,but if your buss is incapable of the transfer speeds,then sata does nothing more than save space inside the box.In most cases A second 7200rpm hard drive is more than adequate,and cheaper too.
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