Is it recommended to get an additional HARD DRIVE for captur

[Erwin]

I was just wondering because all I have is a Western Digital 20gig HD. I was thinking about getting an additional 30gig HD. Does this make the capturing smoother? Thanks.

[HillJack]

imo, no. provided you have enough physical memory in your system to prevent excess swapping by windows, and your vcache is setup correctly. oh, and your current drive is dma-capable/enabled.

just don't be running microsoft office in the background while trying to capture video

sure it would be more convenient to have a dedicated drive for capturing, but its not neccessary.

[Erwin]

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On 2001-09-13 00:26:49, HillJack wrote:
imo, no. provided you have enough physical memory in your system to prevent excess swapping by windows, and your vcache is setup correctly. oh, and your current drive is dma-capable/enabled.

just don't be running microsoft office in the background while trying to capture video

sure it would be more convenient to have a dedicated drive for capturing, but its not neccessary.

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Thanks for the tip. My drive has a little over 10gigs to spare. The only programs I have my computer are Quicken, NERO, Ulead4, Multimedia Center, Napster(which I probably need to remove ), PowerDVD, Corel Presentations, and ME 98.