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Originally Posted by Jason Dunn
I used a 4200 RPM in an external Firewire enclosure, and used Scenealyzer to do a speed test, and it tested 3x realtime - meaning I had three times more speed that I needed to capture full stream DV in real time. By comparison, a 7200 RPM Western Digital drive over USB 2.0 ranked 7x realtime.
More speed is always better, but 4200 RPM is workable!
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Great point, Jason. And for a notebook, if it has a Firewire port, an external Firewire drive might be just thing to get past the issue of having a single set of heads trying to run the OS and the capture program and write a continuous stream of DV data at the same time.