transfering DV to a laptop HDD?

[Red96TA]

The 80gb HDD is only spinning at 4200rpm...is that enough? FWIW, I'm only going to transfer 300-400mb to the HDD, not the whole tape.

[redwudz]

Should be no problem. I have used my ADVC-100 to transfer DV into my 4200 RPM laptop drive with a PCMCIA Firewire card with no dropped frames.

[takeshi]

The only way to accurately answer this is to test the sustained read and write speed of your hard drive. If you can manage about 36Mbps then you're golden.

[hsugawar]

The 80gb HDD is only spinning at 4200rpm.

I have seen a few people claiming their HDs are 4200rpm, but I've only seen 4800rpm HDs (and 3600, 7200, you name it!) and no "4200." Is there such a product? I know the rating is probably approximate and there's no practical meaning to compare between 4200 and 4800, but I am just curious...

hiro

[Red96TA]

It's a Gateway laptop and the specs page says 4200...unless it's a typo.

[redwudz]

AFAIK, the majority of 2.5 laptop HDs are 4200 RPM. Just check the drive manufacturers websites. Some of the newer ones are faster. May be that the faster drives generate more heat that would be more of a problem in a laptop. Still, a 4200 RPM drive should be fast enough for DV.