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More info?)
On Fri, 04 Mar 2005 05:03:05 GMT, Moe Hair <mohair@nospam.com> wrote:
>don <nospam@wtez.net> wrote in news:38m6c3F5pu084U1@individual.net:
>
>> How does the performance of these usb drives compare to ide? Do you
>> tend to get more "skipped frames" when doing capture or is usb2 fast
>> enough and no latency problems? I was thinking/hoping that this would
>> be a nice out instead of putting another harddrive in the case.
>> Currently my video data is all on the same drive as my software and
>> honestly I can't say that I've experienced problems until I let it get
>> like 90% full.
>
>I bought an 80 gig Maxtor about 2 years ago and never had a problem with
>it. It's not as fast as an IDE drive of course, but it serves the purpose.
>This is a fantastic thread. I never thought of buying the enclosure with
>an internal IDE! Basically, it's the same thing that Maxtor is doing.
>
>For $30, I could have the case, and for another $65 or so after rebate, I
>could have a 200 gig internal Western or Seagate IDE drive converted into a
>portable external drive. $95 for all that portable storage! What's the
>point of burning CD or DVD backups! It's much easier to search and catalog
>hard drives.
If you can handle the assembly, which is no harder than putting in
an internal drive (maybe even easier), this is the way to do it. The
drives themselves are very cheap, and the enclosures aren't expensive
either.
USB2 or Firewire speed is almost as fast as an internal drive. The
speed of the interface is faster than the drive itself, so the only
other issue is whatever overhead the system imposes for the interface.
In any case, it is way faster than what DV capture requires, which is
all that matters.
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