Looking for an additional harddrive

[slicksterproductions]

Not sure if this is the right area for this post but here it is anyway.

Im looking to get an addtional hard drive for my computer.
(Filled up the 80gb from video projects.)

I was wondering if a certain type of hard drive (specific speed, or whatever) was needed for capturing video.


I was looking at this one.
http://www.circuitcity.com/frame1.jsp?BV_SessionID=@@@@1956800800.1050279109@@@@&BV_En...TY=1&OID=69128

is this good for what i would be using it for.

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[ZippyP.]

You will probably get opinions from people that prefer different brands. I think your choice is fine. 8)

[LanEvo7]

That should fit your needs if your trying to save some money. Otherwise, I'd recommend the WD 8mb cache line.

[slicksterproductions]

Well the reason i chose this one was because circuit city has it on sale after mail in rebates for 70 dollars.

What does 8mb cache mean?

[LanEvo7]

Its a different line of WD hard drives. Most hard drives have a 2mb cache. These have 8mb. The extra cache helps in the performance of the HD. Since you seem to be using this with large files, it should help you out. Its a little bit more expensive, but its the best consumer IDE harddrive out there. Oh, it also has a 3 year warrenty, while most have 1 now.
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=42

[HungryHorace]

if you're going to capture video then you should make sure its a 7200 rpm rather than a 5400 rpm model otherwise you might end up dropping frames when capturing.

[ZippyP.]

The one slickster selected is 7200 rpm!

[Redd]

Its a different line of WD hard drives. Most hard drives have a 2mb cache. These have 8mb. The extra cache helps in the performance of the HD. Since you seem to be using this with large files, it should help you out. Its a little bit more expensive, but its the best consumer IDE harddrive out there. Oh, it also has a 3 year warrenty, while most have 1 now.
http://www.westerndigital.com/en/products/products.asp?DriveID=42

Yeah...But...All of WD's 8mb Cache HD's are internal. If you want to use a WD External or WD External Firewire you'll need to settle for a 2 mb cache. I got tired of filling up my internal WD HD so I got a 120 gig WD Firewire External HD dedicated for video files alone, and have not had any problems Re: the 2 mb cache.

Good luck

[LanEvo7]

I assumed he wanted an internal one since the link he posted was for an internal one.

[AlfB]

For video files that are mostly big, going from 2 MB to 8 MB cache does no good as the cache fills quickly and then is wasted since when it is full, you are back to the overall speed of the drive. The performance you gain from a larger cache is mainly to do with small files.

[Redd]

I assumed he wanted an internal one since the link he posted was for an internal one.

Yeah, he wasn't really specific about it so I was offering some choices. For me it was allot easier pluging in a firewire compaired to installing a internal drive.

[slicksterproductions]

Thanks for the replys, sry that i wasn't specific enough. I was looking for an internal harddrive mostly because there cheaper. So if you guys say that the cache really doesn't matter when im using large video files then ill just go with the 100 gig internal that i choose originally.

Thanks for the help.