External firewire hard drive sufficient for capturing?

[sellpipe]

I have been debating abut putting a WD 120 GB external hard drive (7200rpm) on my comp to use exclusively for capturing video. Would I get any quality loss by doing this setup? I just wanted to make sure there would be enough speed for good quality video.

I have a 1.1g tbird process and 256 meg ram. When I capture I shut down everything else to keep resources free for capture.

Its a long story on why I want external instead of internal drive. So I wont bore you with that story

Thanks

dp

[LDM]

This drive is slow.
I picked up an external firewire WD HD 120GB. I tried to backup some files to it. This drive took approx 8 hours to back up 6GB of stuff. My computer is 2GH P4, 1GB RAM. It was connected to a ADS Pyro Firewire card. I returned the HD.

Hope this helps

[Redd]

I'm using a Western Digital 120 gig 7200 RPM External Firewire dedicated for video only. Works great. No problems.

[The village idiot]

I am using a firewire connected drive for DV video and it works great! Yes it is slower than connecting to IDE. Different enclosures also have different speeds. Enclosures from Acom are faster than the ones with CompUSA on the label. Other than that, that's all I can tell you.

[The village idiot]

This drive is slow.
I picked up an external firewire WD HD 120GB. I tried to backup some files to it. This drive took approx 8 hours to back up 6GB of stuff. My computer is 2GH P4, 1GB RAM. It was connected to a ADS Pyro Firewire card. I returned the HD.

Hope this helps

Something was wrong/defective somewhere in there.

It doesn't take me that long to transfer 6GB of mp3's to my crappy Archos Pukebox over USB 1.1 at a very slow rate. I think it only goes at 1.1 mbps. 6GB takes about 4 hours going to the Pukebox.

[LDM]

Something was wrong/defective somewhere in there.

It doesn't take me that long to transfer 6GB of mp3's to my crappy Archos Pukebox over USB 1.1 at a very slow rate. I think it only goes at 1.1 mbps. 6GB takes about 4 hours going to the Pukebox.

I returned the WD drive and bought the 160GB Maxtor instead. The Maxtor is MUCH faster.

[Redd]

LDM...Looks like we may have/had the same drive. The Village guy is right. You had a defective drive.

[Doggiedaddy]

This drive is slow.
I picked up an external firewire WD HD 120GB. I tried to backup some files to it. This drive took approx 8 hours to back up 6GB of stuff. My computer is 2GH P4, 1GB RAM. It was connected to a ADS Pyro Firewire card. I returned the HD.

Hope this helps

I do full system B/U on these type drives and up to 25GB does not even take close to 6hr on any of my machines all units around 2GHz and /\. You should be fine, I"ll have to time a lg B/U and see what they do take to run per gig.

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