Hello everyone!
I want to make a series of gameplay (and maybe screen) capture videos in 1080p and good quality. The system I have right now has about 80GB free, but with a 20min long video it easily goes down to 60GB or less. So I want to buy some new HDDs.
I am probably going to buy 2x2TB and make a RAID (mirror), so that I work with (a little more) safety. I will have more HDDs in the near future for backups. So the logic is 2x500GB (RAID) as system drives (I already have those) and 2x2TB for storage and gameplay capture.
I am concerned about 3 things:
1) price: I would like to stay below 250euros (341USD)
2) noise: I also word as an audio engineer and I record Voice Overs or other sounds in the same room, so I would like to keep noise levels to a minimum.
3) bandwidth: Is the bandwidth of a 5400 or 5900RPM HDD going to be enough for capturing HD video? I am considering low RPM for the noise issue, but if it's not going to work, then I will find another solution for the noise.
I made some quick calculations and found out that the videos I capture must run at about 18MB/s... A 2 minute video I captured is 2.16GB so:
2.16 x 1024 = 2211.84 MB / 120 secs = 18,4 MB/s
If the way I calculated that is correct and according to this article about WD Caviar Green:
"In our large file transfer tests, the disk's performance was in line with its full-speed rivals, averaging 139.8MB/s based on a write speed of 133.1MB/s and a read speed of 146.4MB/s. However, its slow spin speed makes an impact on its performance in small file transfers. Here, it averages just 47.1MB/s with a slow write speed of 37.6MB/s and a read speed of 56.6MB/s. That makes it better suited to being used as a data disk than as a system disk."
then it should work. I just want to ask if you guys know something more or have tried something similar and what results did you get, so that I don't spend my money to get something that won't suit my needs.
ps: I record 1920x1080p, 25fps, AVI, and the software gives me "low/normal/high" quality settings. In low the quality is obviously worse than normal. In normal I can actually not spot any flaws compared to what I was seeing when I recorded the footage, so I don't care about the high setting. The software I use is Mirillis Action.
I want to make a series of gameplay (and maybe screen) capture videos in 1080p and good quality. The system I have right now has about 80GB free, but with a 20min long video it easily goes down to 60GB or less. So I want to buy some new HDDs.
I am probably going to buy 2x2TB and make a RAID (mirror), so that I work with (a little more) safety. I will have more HDDs in the near future for backups. So the logic is 2x500GB (RAID) as system drives (I already have those) and 2x2TB for storage and gameplay capture.
I am concerned about 3 things:
1) price: I would like to stay below 250euros (341USD)
2) noise: I also word as an audio engineer and I record Voice Overs or other sounds in the same room, so I would like to keep noise levels to a minimum.
3) bandwidth: Is the bandwidth of a 5400 or 5900RPM HDD going to be enough for capturing HD video? I am considering low RPM for the noise issue, but if it's not going to work, then I will find another solution for the noise.
I made some quick calculations and found out that the videos I capture must run at about 18MB/s... A 2 minute video I captured is 2.16GB so:
2.16 x 1024 = 2211.84 MB / 120 secs = 18,4 MB/s
If the way I calculated that is correct and according to this article about WD Caviar Green:
"In our large file transfer tests, the disk's performance was in line with its full-speed rivals, averaging 139.8MB/s based on a write speed of 133.1MB/s and a read speed of 146.4MB/s. However, its slow spin speed makes an impact on its performance in small file transfers. Here, it averages just 47.1MB/s with a slow write speed of 37.6MB/s and a read speed of 56.6MB/s. That makes it better suited to being used as a data disk than as a system disk."
then it should work. I just want to ask if you guys know something more or have tried something similar and what results did you get, so that I don't spend my money to get something that won't suit my needs.
ps: I record 1920x1080p, 25fps, AVI, and the software gives me "low/normal/high" quality settings. In low the quality is obviously worse than normal. In normal I can actually not spot any flaws compared to what I was seeing when I recorded the footage, so I don't care about the high setting. The software I use is Mirillis Action.
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