Record to eSATA vs internal physical C drive

[muusicman]

I was looking around. Trying to find a solution to a problem I’m having. I use an older video capture device because it has a connection for A/V which most new ones don’t seem to have. I like it this way. Anyway. It’s a Hauppauge HD PVR 2 Gaming Edition. Anyway I notice at times as it’s recording the video showing on my PC will freeze. I read where someone suggested that instead of recording the clips straight from the PVR to my Physical C Drive that instead I should record to an eSATA drive. and then transfer from the eSATA to an external hard drive. I have since I started doing this recorded straight from the device and the files save automatically in my videos folder in my Physical C Drive. I been told if I use an eSATA instead it’ll work better and possibly fix the issue. Anyone know anything about eSATA drives?

It’s extremely important to me that I do these recordings.

How does eSATA work differently/better than recording to a physical C drive or to an external hard drive?

[jagabo]

How does eSATA work differently/better than recording to a physical C drive or to an external hard drive?

The eSATA interface is the same as the internal SATA interface. The big differences it that Windows often needs to access the boot drive (your C drive) for housekeeping, logging, etc. If those access occur while you're capturing they will interfere with the cap. Capturing to a separate drive will alleviate that problem.

[muusicman]

My major issue is the video freezes while capturing. That’s what I’m trying to stop from happening.

[Alwyn]

"eSATA" is a cable/interface system. It is not a "drive" as such. You can connect an external hard drive, via an eSATA cable, and capture to that. However, you need either a SATA cable coming off your motherboard out of your computer or a dedicated eSATA port on the your machine to plug in to. Then you need a eSATA-enabled dock to put your HDD into. I had an eSATA port on my very old motherboard (which I connected to a special eSATA dock) but I think it has fallen out of favour because USB 3 is as fast but much more flexible and versatile.

Or, you can just capture to an external HDD straight-off. A USB 3 drive is highly recommended.

[muusicman]

I’ve tried that last option before. The program freezes worse when recording when I do that for some reason.

[muusicman]

What if anything does anyone in here know about the Hauppauge Capture program?

[Eric-jan]

Once you have a stable analog video signal, convert to SDI or HDMI with a prosumer analog to digital converter, then you have a reasonable choice in prosumer PCIe SDI/HDMI capture/transfer cards, you should use a card that uses a single lane, that's not used by an other device in your computer.
Use a lossless or visual lossless codec to capture, A SDI/HDMI field recorder will aslo do, then you won't need a computer for the capture process.
Other setups with a computer will have too many trap doors you can fall into. like old devices that need old drivers, old Operating system, have too slow bus speeds, and slow storage during capture.
Instead of thinking about eSATA you should think about fast internal SSD storage, (faster then HDD) which is also becoming cheap at a large volume.

[muusicman]

Once you have a stable analog video signal, convert to SDI or HDMI with a prosumer analog to digital converter, then you have a reasonable choice in prosumer PCIe SDI/HDMI capture/transfer cards, you should use a card that uses a single lane, that's not used by an other device in your computer.
Use a lossless or visual lossless codec to capture, A SDI/HDMI field recorder will aslo do, then you won't need a computer for the capture process.
Other setups with a computer will have too many trap doors you can fall into. like old devices that need old drivers, old Operating system, have too slow bus speeds, and slow storage during capture.
Instead of thinking about eSATA you should think about fast internal SSD storage, (faster then HDD) which is also becoming cheap at a large volume.

I don’t really understand anything you just said, but…
I just put in a new hard drive in my desktop. I put this in.
Crucial MX500 2TB 3D NAND SATA 2.5 Inch Internal SSD, up to 560MB/s - CT2000MX500SSD1 https://a.co/d/babLBUf

Also, maxed out my RAM. I took out what was in it. And replaced it with this.
Mushkin 16GB(2X8GB) Redline DDR3 PC3-17000 2133MHz 10-12-12-28 Desktop Memory Model MRC3U213ACCW8GX2 https://a.co/d/9Us2xmP