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Is a caviar black 1tb good for recording?

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September 26, 2014 3:46:25 PM

So I want to record 1080p gameplay on my 2nd drive and want to know if the caviar black will be blue to manage it. It has a write speed of 170 mb/s. is that enough or is a ssd recommended?

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September 26, 2014 3:53:27 PM

Also does it matter I I save it as f drive or d drive or e drive? Or will tht not affect performance?
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September 26, 2014 4:38:02 PM

The black should be fine for the job.

Keep in mind that its still a harddrive and will slow down as it fills and the heads move inwards to write new info.
I usually recommend that recording drives get partitioned. Make a small one, enough to hold your longest recording, and then the remainder as a second partition. Use the small one to record to and when you are done, copy it to the second partition for storage. After you verify the copy is good/uncorrupted you can go back and delete the original.

This ensures that the fastest, outer, portion of the platters is always used for your recordings.
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September 28, 2014 2:49:46 PM

popatim said:
The black should be fine for the job.

Keep in mind that its still a harddrive and will slow down as it fills and the heads move inwards to write new info.
I usually recommend that recording drives get partitioned. Make a small one, enough to hold your longest recording, and then the remainder as a second partition. Use the small one to record to and when you are done, copy it to the second partition for storage. After you verify the copy is good/uncorrupted you can go back and delete the original.

This ensures that the fastest, outer, portion of the platters is always used for your recordings.

okay. I got it but it cant seem to cope. It has a 170mb/s write speed 7200rpm and i cant even record at 55 fps @ 90% quality, it often stutters to about 53 and in big scenarios with lots of explosions it drops all the way to 40 fps. Very disappointed, seems like i need a ssd tbh :/ 
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September 30, 2014 2:56:56 PM

fraps @ 1080/60 uses less than 100mb/s. You have other issues going on my friend.
Are you sure this drive is doing nothing else but recording? You didnt load the game to the 2nd partition?

Please list your system specs (make/model# of the parts)
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October 1, 2014 12:11:30 AM

popatim said:
fraps @ 1080/60 uses less than 100mb/s. You have other issues going on my friend.
Are you sure this drive is doing nothing else but recording? You didnt load the game to the 2nd partition?

Please list your system specs (make/model# of the parts)


popatim said:
fraps @ 1080/60 uses less than 100mb/s. You have other issues going on my friend.
Are you sure this drive is doing nothing else but recording? You didnt load the game to the 2nd partition?

Please list your system specs (make/model# of the parts)


AMD r9 290
I5 4670k
1TB Caviar blue
1TB Caviar Black
Z87-HD3 Mobo
2x4gb ram Ares Gskill 2100mhz
Rm 750w psu

I have battlefield 4 on my C drive and my 1tb black is my F drive. I have downloaded a codec, lossless lagarith and am recording using dxtory which has been downloaded onto my c drive and then i have moved it over to my f drive.
It cant be a hardware issue as it has a normal write speed of 170+mb/s and drops to 140mb/s when playing a game.
All the parts seem to be working perfectly fine, I am using a 6gb/s connector with the mobo as well!
Help!
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October 1, 2014 6:26:10 PM

Lagarith is highly compressed, I'm not sure you have enough cpu to game and capture. Have you tried the AMD VCE ? The hardware encoder built into your GPU ? You'll need to check with dxtory on how to enable it.

edit - you have multithreading turned on in dxtory right?
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October 3, 2014 1:51:17 AM

popatim said:
Lagarith is highly compressed, I'm not sure you have enough cpu to game and capture. Have you tried the AMD VCE ? The hardware encoder built into your GPU ? You'll need to check with dxtory on how to enable it.

edit - you have multithreading turned on in dxtory right?


yeah multithreading is enabled and have enabled 4 compression threads.
How would I set up AMD VCE?
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