Hard Drive Throughput

40wnks · Post by **40wnks** » Fri Dec 06, 2002 12:05 am

I am looking at the Pinnacle Systems Studio Software because, as a parent, I have quite a bit of analog tape (Hi8 and VCR) of family movies. I would like to edit this and eventually burn this to DVDs. Pinnacle requires a hard drive that "...must be capable of sustained throughput of at least 4 MB/sec. All SCSI and most UDMA drives are fast enough (dedicated hard drive recommended)." The Software comes with a PCI card that has a firewire input, in/out composite, and in/out SVHS.
I just bought a 120Gb Western Digital 7200RPM drive, ATA 100 I believe, with a 2MB buffer, will this do the job or do I need to take it back and get a different one? They make a Caviar version with an 8MB buffer. Thanks.
Bill

PreDatoR · Post by **PreDatoR** » Fri Dec 06, 2002 1:24 am

that drive will do the trick. Even the old EIDE HDD's would transfer fast enough.

Post by **FlyingPenguin** » Fri Dec 06, 2002 9:08 am

Just do yourself a favor and make a seperate partition JUST for editing videos. When you're done with a project and burn it, wipe the drive for the next project.

They normally recommend you defrag before loading a new project but if the drive is wiped there's no need to.

40wnks · Post by **40wnks** » Fri Dec 06, 2002 12:00 pm

Thanks guys, much appreciation!
Bill