Capture hard drive on shared EDI vs EDI on PCI card

[rijir2001]

Right now my extra hard drive for captures in on the same EDI cable as my C: drive. Would connecting it via a PCI card with an extra EDI slot improve my performance in captures or maybe do nothing at all? Just want to know before I bother to buy a PCI card.

I have a Pentium 4 2GHz with 1GB RAM

[redwudz]

You might see a small advantage. It would depend on the existing IDE controller on your motherboard and how much your OS programs are accessing your boot drive during captures. But if you have a spare PCI slot, the cost of a PCI IDE controller is low enough. I would give it a try.

And I would avoid using the PCI slot directly under your video card as it usually shares IRQs with other devices and that can slow things down.

[rijir2001]

Okay. Now a follow up possibly dumb question. Do they make firewire PCI cards that have an EDI slot built in that allows you to import a DV signal into the card and go straight to the drive on that EDI cable?

[rijir2001]

Okay. Now a follow up possibly dumb question. Do they make firewire PCI cards that have an EDI slot built in that allows you to import a DV signal into the card and go straight to the drive on that EDI cable?

So, was this really a dumb question or does anyone know if this is possible?