Poll: What IDE HDD would you say is decent to capture and store video (MPEG 1,2 and AVI)?

[ManuTOmanU]

I was thinking of either the Maxtor (60 series) or the Quantum Fireball Plus AS (LM)...

Do you have any advice on this thread? Experience?

What do you think... What do I have to look for?

It is going to work

The main drive is going to be a 9.2GB SCSI Atlas 10K II... 1gig tbird and one IDE drive only... no raid... at first!!!

but i am concidering another drive later on... but for now my paycheck doesn't allow more than 20 or 30 gig... so i am stuck...

 

[ManuTOmanU]

Sorry but i am tired and need to get some sleep...

cannot discuss this tonight... I sure will check it tomorrow...

so keep me up...

ICQ guys

 

[rbV5]

Why would you want an ide drive to capture video when you already have SCSI onboard? get another SCSI drive

 

[Prospero]

I prefer the IBM GXP75 series for capture, and am using two in a 60 gig raid0. It's been a few years since I bought a Maxtor, so I'm not terribley familiar with that model. Quantum, I haven't bought at all.

Prospero

 

[ManuTOmanU]

what do you think... SCSI is about 4x the price of IDE!!!

And I don't think I need SCSI for storrage... I don't know about capturing and storring... What I could do is caputre small parts to SCSI... ie those would be like small parts of analog camcorders... But I would need the IDE to capture movies in MPEG2 from my tv tuner... (the card I am doing this with is a Hauppauge PVR!!!)

Do I need SCSI speed just to capture the video... I am not talking about editing...

(that is the reason I posted here...)

Does it work fine to capture to an IDE device???

Or I gotta go and get another 18 gig SCSI drive!!!

 

[Prospero]

For the datarate you will be using with the pvr, you don't even need a 7200 rpm drive. Buy what you want, most anything fairly recent should work.

Prospero

 

[ManuTOmanU]

That is what I was thinking....

So ok I either get the Quantum, the Maxtor, or the IBM....

These are the leading hdd out...

Thanx

 

[RobsTV]

While many like Maxtor, I have had nothing but trouble with them.
Price was why I kept buying Maxtor, but when Western Digital finally
dropped to same range I made the jump, and will now never go back.

I am currently using a WD 20gig 7200 ATA66 drive ($50 Sams club special), for capturing mpeg video, and it works 100% perfectly.

 

[Dundain]

I agree with RobsTV: Ive had 3 Maxtor drives die on my, I think they're peices of crap. Now, every computer I buy parts for gets either an IBM or Western Digital drive. They might not be the fastest, but I still have WD drives that are over 6hrs old that still work fine (slow as hell, but thats ok). I got a Western Digital 20Gb 7200rpm for a $100, which isnt half bad in my opinion.

 

[Edski]

I have a 160 gig RAID using four Maxtor 54098U8 drives, have no problems doing MPEG2.

 

[TGCid]

Does the drives have to be the same speed and brand if you want to use them in RAID?

 

[Rendus]

For mpeg2, even at DVD bitrates, pretty much any drive will work (DVD is typically around 8 megabits/second, so anything that can manage to pull off a few megabytes/sec would do fine).

If you're doing raw AVI capture (640x480x32bpp uncompressed), a 7200RPM+ drive is a must. You're looking at almost 30mbytes/sec without audio there.

 

[ManuTOmanU]

Ok... wait I think I need to read some more Reviews...

I would like to get the Quantum, because it is cheap... you can get a 30 gig quantum Fireball Plus AS for 100$... That is awesome....

So I am probably going with them....

Well I sure will read some more reviews on this drive... so I keep you up...