Please advice on HD for video editing!

[Guest]

I'm building a sys. for editing and I want to know if a ATA100 7200rpm HD is adequate for digital video, I don't want to spend a lot more money on SCSI drives if I don't have to, if the only penalty is data transfer speed(without data loss) then I'm fine with ATA drives.
1 GHZ Athlon CPU
512 MB RAM
Thank you.

 

[peteb]

Hmm - you are going to spend a fair amount of time with you hands in your pockets anyway.

For raw DV capture - you'll be writing to your disk at approx. 3.7MB/sec. As long as your drive will support that - you are fine.

Key thing - just make sure you have it configured as DMA.

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[bw37]

Check out <A HREF="http://www.videoguys.com" target="_new">http://www.videoguys.com</A>

They'll sell you some expensive raid arrays if you want, but if you read their actual recommendations, a good, new IDE drive will do the job for you. I guess it's recommended that you have a separate, physical drive for the actual video data storage. You also need lots of drive space for your "feature length" films .

BW

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[silverpig]

That should be fine. You might consider going for two 40 gig IBM 75GXP or Quantum AS drives and set them up in RAID 0.

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[Arrow]

That is great - pretty much the norm for the common user. I also recommend the IBM 75GXP.

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[Lars_Coleman]

If it was me and I was looking for a cheap reliable drive I would go with the Maxtor Diamond Max Plus 60 series (model 5T060H6). You can find them anywhere almost.

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