What speed HD do Need?

shagstlmshagstlm
Posted:
in General Discussion edited January 2014
I was looking at some external hard drives for video capture from my dv cam and I was wondering what was the lowest speed that I need? I was looking at the FireLites which have a 4200 rpm cause they are so small that way I could do my editing on the road. They must be self powered and small. Any recomendations?



thanks

chris

Comments

  • Reply 1 of 3
    xionjaxionja Posts: 504member
    I beilive 5400 is the lowest you want to go for video. I am not quite sure. I went for the whole hog, when I bought a external hard drive, got a 7200 rpm. Its really nice, I can plug the camera dirrectly into the external.
  • Reply 2 of 3
    mac os x addictmac os x addict Posts: 322member
    Quote:

    Originally posted by xionja

    I beilive 5400 is the lowest you want to go for video. I am not quite sure. I went for the whole hog, when I bought a external hard drive, got a 7200 rpm. Its really nice, I can plug the camera dirrectly into the external.



    Yeah, the 7200 drives are the best especially with 8 MB of cache in it. OS X really flies on those drives.
  • Reply 3 of 3
    shagstlmshagstlm Posts: 112member
    i know 5400 is not the lowest becasue i have a powerbook that only has a 4800 and it works great...
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