Hi
I am in the process of deciding which HD to buy to use for capuring video to.At the moment I have a 10gb 7200n udma hard drive formatted as 1 partition. I am looking to spend around £250.
Any suggestions would be helpful, also with the disk I have and the one I intend to purchase what would be the best way to set them up partition wise and channel wise.
I also have a cdrom drive ibstalled as slave and am running win98.
Thanks for any advice
tez
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I would suggest saving an extra £50 and getting the IBM 25Gb unit. Alternatively wait a month or two and the price of the drive will come to you.
The Maxtor 17.2Gb drive is also very good, and I think you can now get one for around £200.
You hint that you presently have your hard drive and CD-ROM on the same EIDE chain. If this is true then you should put the CD on the second chain (as a Primary), and put the two drives on the first chain. Otherwise the CD can adversely effect the speed of your Hard Disk.
Partition wise I simply set my second drive up as one huge drive (D 
and then use this unit for storing all my AV files, the O/S by contrast and ALL program files (Premiere, DVTools, Win98) are kept on another drive (C .
If you split your new drive up then invariably at a later point in time you will need more space on one partition, and less on the other. The only ways around this are to trash the drive and re-setup the partitions, or to buy a copy of Partition Magic.
Hope this has been of some use.
Andy
thanks for the response.
Yes , I think maybe I will wait around for a price drop in the 25 gb IBM for a couple of months and maybe by then we'll have seen some reviews and have a better idea of reliability , speed etc.
thanks tez
There's a review of the IBM 25GB in the new (May) issue of Computer Video.
Editor's Choice award-winner.
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Bob C
As Bob says, the article in Computer Video backs up everything said above.
Big, Fast and with it being from IBM it should damn well be reliable too...
So far my Miro DV300 hasn't reported a single dropped frame whilst using it.
Andy
Andy
Whats the longest capture (in minutes) you've achieved to date with the DV300 and the IBM drive, also is it holding audio sync Ok on long captures (what length of capture).
Regards
Ken
Hi
What is the cheapest price you have seen this drive at and where?
regards tez
Ken,
Approximately 8 minutes. No problems that I can see / hear straight away. Although I haven't rendered it to tape and played it back through the TV. Have you discovered problems with this..?
Can you capture clips any longer than 8 min..? 8 minutes = 2Gb and that's the end of the AVI file size. I haven't tried capturing anything longer for that reason.
Does the DV300 do something clever and split a bigger capture up into 2Gb files as it captures...?
Tez,
£305+VAT at Multimedia Direct. That's where I bought mine (as recommended by Mr Ferrick.
Of course prices come down all the time so keep our eyes open for a better deal.
Andy