Will switching from IDE to USB HD be to slow?

[happydog500]

I capture TV Shows with my TV Tuner card (youtube - happydog500). Sometimes edit and burn them on DVD. Right now I use my internal IDE HD. I want to get an external HD. It's a USB.
IDE is faster then USB.

When my card is capturing (recording), will the slower USB, be two slow?

When I edit, then render, will the slower USB HD add a significant total time?

If I capture on my current HD, then cut and paste to the bigger USB HD, will copying the file make it worse looking?

Anything else you can add to any of these questions?

Thank you,
Chris.

[edDV]

Is the ComPro Gold a hardware encoding card? If so data rate will be small. If you are capturing uncompressed you will have problems with USB. Get eSATA instead.

[jagabo]

If I capture on my current HD, then cut and paste to the bigger USB HD, will copying the file make it worse looking?

No. As long as you're not reencoding.

[jman98]

Is the ComPro Gold a hardware encoding card? If so data rate will be small. If you are capturing uncompressed you will have problems with USB. Get eSATA instead.

Man, it was really tough to find information that tells, but the company website does say that the card does hardware encoding. You really have to dig to find it. That's if this card is the TV Gold Plus card. I couldn't find anything on just a TV Gold card. I looked it up because I had the feeling that the original poster might not know (I apologize if he did know).

[happydog500]

Mine is the Plus.

[edDV]

Is the ComPro Gold a hardware encoding card? If so data rate will be small. If you are capturing uncompressed you will have problems with USB. Get eSATA instead.

Man, it was really tough to find information that tells, but the company website does say that the card does hardware encoding. You really have to dig to find it. That's if this card is the TV Gold Plus card. I couldn't find anything on just a TV Gold card. I looked it up because I had the feeling that the original poster might not know (I apologize if he did know).

I looked too and couldn't find specs.

[redwudz]

Simple answer, Yes, most of the time, IMO. Depends on what you are doing. USB is fine for small files, but may have problems with very large files. The main problem with USB is the OS likes to mess with the USB interface, so it can be very slow if you have a lot of USB peripherals and the OS is checking them all the time. I would also recommend eSATA if you want to use external drives and access/throughput speed is a concern. eSATA runs the drives the same speed as the internal drives.