5400rpm Hard Drive good enough for Capturing?

[lmichiel]

I do my capturing on an external freecom hard disc with a firewire interface. The hard disc in this kit is a plain, of the shelf (maxtor), hard disc and runs on 5400 rpm

I never experienced any dropped frames so I dare to declare that 5400 rpm is more than sufficient for capturing.

cheers
Leo

[EwanG]

Do yourself a favour and grab a copy of Virtual Dub and test your harddrive.

http://www.virtualdub.org/

It contains a little utility that will test drive write speeds. It may suprise you.

Any idea what menu item that's under? I wanted to try my external drives to see if, now that I have my firewire interface a little more stable, if it would be worth trying to hook up my Canopus again. Being able to run a test rather than doing a number of connections and then finding out it works (or doesn't) seems like a good thing.

Thanks,
Ewan