Capture on slave drive or external drive??

[sellpipe]

I just installed a 160g slave drive on my system. I also have a 120g external drive connected w/firewire that I have used for video editing and capturing. It has worked terrific.

Would I get better results (dropped frames and such) by capturing on my new slave drive? it is a 7200rpm IDE

thanks!

dp

[Cole]

Personally I would use the slave drive to capture, but then that is my own preference. I have a Seagate Barracuda 120GB 7200 HD as a third hard drive (through a IDE PCI card) and have not had a dropped frame yet.

I don't have one, but I just feel tht an external drive would be ideal for backup storeage mainly.

Hope that this helps.

[Bodyslide]

I use my slave drive for all video capture and editing. I use my external drive for storage of finished DVD's. I normally save the finished product in iso format, then burn it from the external drive when needed.

[BobK]

Either one should work fine. If you have a problem with dropped frames (and such) with one then use the other.

[lordsmurf]

Slave