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  1. 23rd Mar 2002 07:38 #1
    kazzer
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    Can someone tell me when is hard drive speed critical? Capture or Encoding? Should I go for a 60Gb 5400 RPM drive or a 40Gb 7200 RPM drive. My intention is to capture AVI maybe using Huffyuv.

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  2. 23rd Mar 2002 09:57 #2
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    hard drive speed is more important for capture, cpu speed is more important for converting. All though huffy is a great codec for capture you might prefer a 60gig 7200 if you want to capture anything big... fork out the extra 20-40$ it's worth it.
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    Thanks Resnullius, I'll take your advice!
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    Resnullius is correct for I was capturing video with a 5400 drive and when I played it back it was choppy. A new 7200 solved my problems.
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    I bought a 7200rpm HDD and compared to 5400rpm that came with my computer like night and day.I don't know why anybody would want a 5400
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