Barracuda or Caviar

[Lunchbox]

I am getting a new hard drive. I am looking at the Seagate Barracuda 40gb 7200 RPM Model # ST340016A and the WD Caviar 40gb 7200 rpm Model # WD400BB. I will be doing tv recording and editing. Which one will be better for me? Thanks for any help.

LunchBox

 

[AMD_Man]

Neither!! Both are too small for any serious video editing.

AMD technology + Intel technology = Intel/AMD Pentathlon IV; the <b>ULTIMATE</b> PC processor

 

[Guest]

They are both good drives, but the Barracuda is a little faster. I just bought it myself.
On something else though I know that when you get a 40 gig you don't get exactly 40 gigs of space, but I got 38.? Like a whole gig less, I think that's a bit of crap, not that I'll use it all.

I like to turkey!?!

 

[Lars_Coleman]

Check out the <A HREF="http://forumz.tomshardware.com/hardware/modules.php?name=Forums&file=viewtopic&p=29706#29706" target="_new"><font color=green>end</font color=green></A> of this post. That's the reason your only seeing 38GB.

<font color=red>1GHz AMD x MSI K7T-Turbo x 512MB PC133 x 2-Maxtor 30GB/RAID 0 = Stream Line Butterfly</font color=red>

 

[Lunchbox]

well i am not editing huge AVI files i am only recording and editing MPG files now. I already do video editing with a 10gb 5400 and it too slow for me. i just have to edit and burn the shows on cd the day i record them so i free up space. they are VCD but 1.55 mbit mpg files. I am gonna record higher bitrates when i get the new hard drive.

 

[Guest]

If you want to improve performance, get an IDE raid controller. I combined two WD Cavier (40gb) together in a RAID 0 (striped) configuration. They provide excellent performance.

 

[Lunchbox]

well i would, but i plan on building a new computer next year and will probably do RAID and get another 40 gb hard drive just like the one im getting. Also ki dont have the money right now to get 2 hard drives and raid controllers. But thanks for the suggestion.

Bob

 

[blue_heart]

check the database area at www.storagereview.com
you will find the benchmarking results for both drives so you can determine
although the WD1000JB or (BB) expensive but it seems it is the fastest IDE drive around the world now



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