?? - HD sufficient for digital video

[Steve Husty]

I'd like to know if the Seagate Barracuda ST15150WC hard drive is
suitable for digital video (capture recording, editing and playback).
I'll be using it with fast SCSI (10 MB/s) bus but the drive is rated for
wide SCSI (20 MB/s). The specs are something like 8 ms access, 7200
rpm, 1 MB cache.

Anyone using this drive for "low-end" video work?

Any help greatly appreciated

- steve

[Dash]

In article <34FEC0A2...@mail-fair.ivv.nasa.gov>, Steve Husty
<hu...@mail-fair.ivv.nasa.gov> wrote:

IMO this drive is overkill.. I use a 5400RPM drive with no problems...
Getting ahead of myself here...

I assume you are refering to DVC (Promax or Radius DV cards). They have a
throughput of 3.6 megs/sec. Most 5400 RPM drives can handle this speed.
There are a number of advantages to an AV rated drive that the 5400RPM
does not have... If money is not a super issue, the Seagate is a good
drive to get (I have no personal experience with Seagate so longterm
reliability is a question I can't answer).

You will need to make sure that the drive is attached to your internal
SCSI bus (If it is a FAST bus (7500 or greater system)) or attached to a
SCSI accelerator...

Anything else? This firewire stuff is pretty amazing.. Just expensive
getting the Firewire equipment....

Carl

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