Best range of hard drives for video capture.

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Richard Brooks

Does anyone have a list of favoured drives for video capture production ?

The last time I was doing this sort of thing was long ago and the Quantum
Fireball series was the thing to go for or drives with a 'V' suffix for
video or 10k spindle speed.

I'm looking for a range of drives that don't produce dropouts at a 25fps
frame rate and at greater than 800*600 frame size.


Many thanks,


Richard Brooks.
 
Does anyone have a list of favoured drives for video capture production ?
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The last time I was doing this sort of thing was long ago
and the Quantum Fireball series was the thing to go for
or drives with a 'V' suffix for video or 10k spindle speed.
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I'm looking for a range of drives that don't produce dropouts
at a 25fps frame rate and at greater than 800*600 frame size.
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The short story is that modern drives are all fast enough now.
 
Rod said:
The short story is that modern drives are all fast enough now.
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I'd just started messing around with dumping captures to both drives I have
at the moment and my drive D: has dropouts that happen later than with my C:
drive. For the first four seconds or so with various CODECS or no
compression, I get no dropouts then they start to happen. There are no
changes with the situation when adding extra DIMMS so it's not a memory
buffer problem so I'd assumed that it was a drive accessing problem.

Thanks for your reply,


Richard.
 
Richard Brooks said:
I'd just started messing around with dumping captures to both drives I have
at the moment and my drive D: has dropouts that happen later than with my C:
drive. For the first four seconds or so with various CODECS or no
compression, I get no dropouts then they start to happen. There are no
changes with the situation when adding extra DIMMS so it's not a memory
buffer problem so I'd assumed that it was a drive accessing problem.
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Sure, but not necessarily a DRIVE problem.

Plenty had problems with VIA IDE chipsets for example.
 
Richard Brooks said:
I'd just started messing around with dumping captures to both drives I have
at the moment and my drive D: has dropouts that happen later than with my C:
drive. For the first four seconds or so with various CODECS or no
compression, I get no dropouts then they start to happen. There are no
changes with the situation when adding extra DIMMS so it's not a memory
buffer problem so I'd assumed that it was a drive accessing problem.
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Make sure DMA is enabled and that the drive is not fragmented.
 
SCSI should be better then ATA (IDE) when doing sound/video editing.
What operating system are you using ?
 
The short story is that modern drives are all fast enough now.I agree. I just recorded 720x480 @30fps with 16bit 48Khz stereo sound
and the disk write rate was about 5 MB/second, which can easily be
handled by a modern drive, like maybe 80GB 7200rpm. My suggestion,
figure out the maximum write rate you need, and then find a drive with
that sustained write rate or better.
 
Tod said:
SCSI should be better then ATA (IDE) when doing sound/video editing.
What operating system are you using ?
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I had to smile when looking at another post because I didn't state that I
have the VIA chipset but yep, it's one of those and what a pain in the arse
it's been! I've fixed the hard resets that another more expensive card
costing nearly six hundred quid used to give my trusty old dual Pentium III
and an old Hauppage PCI/TV card that I ripped out of a pc that was thrown
out works great after the VIA chipset updates and BIOS changes.

Basically it's all for 3D modelling using real filmed backgrounds in some
instances hence my initial inquiry.

Thank you all very much for your input and I shall take a wad of notes to
the next computer fair.


Richard.
 
I have no trouble doing video capture, both digital via
Firewire, or analog, using the slowest drive in my system.
This drive is a Maxtor 160GB 5400RPM.

Other drives in my system are 7200RPM, and also work very
well. With the Maxtor 5400, if it is near full and highly
fragmented, I have experienced drop outs. Never had drop
outs with the 7200 drives.

TR
 
anon said:
I have no trouble doing video capture, both digital via
Firewire, or analog, using the slowest drive in my system.
This drive is a Maxtor 160GB 5400RPM.

Other drives in my system are 7200RPM, and also work very
well. With the Maxtor 5400, if it is near full and highly
fragmented, I have experienced drop outs. Never had drop
outs with the 7200 drives.

TR
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Is that greater than 700*500 25fps (I can't remember the PAL area size as
it's an odd one) and are you going for 6000 kbps high crispness ?

Thanks!


Richard.
 
VIA recommends reloading their drivers after any hardware or driver change.
So reloading the VIA drivers might help.
 
Tod said:
VIA recommends reloading their drivers after any hardware or driver
change. So reloading the VIA drivers might help.
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Thanks Tod,

I just happened to do that earlier today but I really must uprate this
machine anyway and buy a drive specifially for dumping.

Richard.
 
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