What HD for DC30+?
Changhsu P. Liu
with a IBM 7200rpm drive (DTTA-371440). I can only get around 5000K/sec
capture without dropping frames. I can see clearly the interlace
horizontal lines at 640X480. I cannot even play it back smoothly. The
manual suggests to use ultra-wide SCSI HD, so I'm in the market for a
fast SCSI to do a better capture.
I have seen a couple of potential 4.5GB drives: Seagate Cheetah,
Seagate Barrecuda, and IBM drive. Cheetah is definitely the best
available at 10,000 rpm. I'm wondering should I spend ~$100 more for
Cheetah or should I just buy a cheaper IBM drive whihc is 7,200 rpm.
Will most 7,200 rpm drives faster enough to reach DC30+'s 7MB/sec
potential so that I don't really need a 10,000 rpm one?
Thanks for any suggestions,
Changhsu Liu
cpl...@optimum.com
Markus Zingg
I'm using several IBM 7200 SCSI drives together with the DC 30+ (no raid or
such) works fine for me. However, bevore you dive into SCSI you might want
to consider FastTrack. They offer controllers that allow you to stripe
several IDE disks together as a raid0. Gives you even better performance
than a (not raid) SCSI configuration at probably fewer bucks. Beware though,
If you are using NT search this NG for a big thread covering trouble using
FastTrack, DC30+ and NT.
HTH
Markus
Changhsu P. Liu schrieb in Nachricht
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Pinnacle Systems DCDV
http://www.pinnaclesys.com/dc30plus/
Hard Drives:
SCSI for best performance:
Quatum Atlas II
Quantum Atlas III
Seagate Cheetah
Medea Video RAID 10 PCI
SCSI HD Controller:
Adaptec 2940UW recommended
Non-SCSI HD Controller:
Promise FasTrak - Dual IDE hard disk controller. May work with the DV300
with proper EIDE hard disks. Pinnacle System highly recommends the use
of the DV300 on board SCSI controller to ensure proper video and audio
capture and playback.
http://www.promise.com/
rgds,
---M3 Sweatt
M3 Sweatt
Director, Desktop Retail Products
Pinnacle Systems, Inc.
URL: http://www.pinnaclesys.com