Does HD speed count???

[aznguy]

Does 5400 vs. 7200 RPM ... really make a differents???

I'm thinking that if it does I'll use my old 60GB 7200RPM ATA100 to rip and convert then store it (transfer) to the 80GB slower drive.


Anyone have a better idea???
Compusa has a special on a 80GB "Compusa brand by Maxtor" at 5400 RPM...$99

any other deals around???

[Kdiddy]

yes it does

[HillJack]

Obviously Kdiddy has never actually tested it.

No, it doesn't matter.

Provided your computer is fast enough (< P3) and your motherboard and 5400RPM hard drive both do DMA, then you'll be alright. 5400 or 7200, won't make a bit of difference for capturing.

I just did a couple 5 min test cap's @ 352x480 w/HuffYUV on default settings...
13gb Maxtor 5,400 RPM drive: 0 frames dropped.
60gig IBM 7,200 RPM Deskstar: 0 frames dropped.

I'm using a P3-964Mhz for this, and to either drive, only 20% CPU usage, no frames dropped, and it works fine.

[aznguy]

ok I got a Athlon 1.4 256DDR and total of 120GB (2HD) at 7200 RPM...
Need third HD...thinking of a slower 5400 because of price.

[vitualis]

Assuming that are not capturing uncompressed video (i.e., you ARE using an AVI codec of some sort like HuffyUV or MJPEG), whether you have a 7200 rpm drive or a 5400 rpm drive doesn't really matter, especially if it is dedicated to video capturing/editing. A 7200 rpm drive will be faster for video editing though.

Make sure Ultra DMA is turned on.

If all you are interested in is ripping a DVD, it probably makes absolutely minimal time difference between 5400 and 7200 and a 7200 rpm drive is definitely not "needed".

Regards.

[Kdiddy]

Obviously Kdiddy has never actually tested it.

No, it doesn't matter.

Provided your computer is fast enough (< P3) and your motherboard and 5400RPM hard drive both do DMA, then you'll be alright. 5400 or 7200, won't make a bit of difference for capturing.

Well "Jackoff", since you seem to know so much, please explain in his post where he mentions "capturing"??..he says nothing of that in his question. In fact his first question was rather vague which is why I gave a rather vague answer. He went on to talked about "ripping", which suggest from DVD, in which YES it does make a difference, while minimal, there is still a difference. It also makes for slightly faster encoding time, which could mean saving an extra 30 mins to 1.5 hours in some of my test cases. So yes it does matter, if there was truly no difference, then why the need for faster rpms? It is up to him to determine the degree of difference for himself and whether he deems it neccessary.

aznguy: You have to ask yourself what your constraints are, if it is purely money, then go with the 5400. if not, then go with 7200.

[vitualis]

Contrary to popular opinion, a 7200 rpm drive is not required for DVD ripping/video capturing/video editing.

However, it must be said that if you are going to buy a new drive for the purpose of video editing, etc., you will be definitely selling yourself short if you don't get a 7200 rpm model. Whether you are capturing video or ripping DVDs, you will almost definitely at some stage be doing some form of video editing (e.g., premastering, muxing, cutting etc.) This is a hard disc intensive task and the faster your drive, the less time you spend waiting.

Even if you are on a limited budget (unless you are really strapped for cash), I would at least suggest a 7200 rpm drive over a 5400 one, and make sure you can support UDMA.

A SCSI HDD would even be better but the cost is probably not justified for the average hobbyist.

Regards.

[Greg12]

I have a 5400 drive formated to NTFS.


They don't make 7200 for laptops that i know of.


I've never had ney problems working with DV and DVD rips

[devinemi83]

In general I have found 7200 are faster than 5400 at certain things.
Video capture and playing, or converting for that matter.
But they are just the same performance wise when it comes to just running regular apps, like word, IE,Money,visual basic.

I did notice a huge boost in defrag speed though, I first had a 6 gig 5400 maxtor and defraging 1.5 gigs data took 45 minutes.
Now with my 40Gig 7200 it takes for the same amount of data between 5-8 minutes.

You will only benefit if your computers does disc intensive tasks.