Editing on a notebook?

Coursedesign wrote on 2/7/2006, 8:22 AM
If you are, then you may have wished for a higher capacity drive than the typical 60-80GB drives they come with. And travellers don't like to bring a drive tower... :O)

Seagate just released the 160GB 2.5" drive 5400.3 ST9160821A (such a catchy name).

It uses perpendicular recording (magnetic bits standing up instead of lying down on the platter) to reach this capacity, and is extremely quiet which is nice if you're also doing live recording like I am. Low power consumption, too.

Pricey ($350), but if you need the capacity, it's the only one.

Comments

dhill wrote on 2/7/2006, 12:48 PM
Wow! That's great. Yes, hauling around one of my G-RAID drives takes up a lot of space in my carry-on plus I can't use it on a plane, so, this would be cool. I fly about 4 times a week in the summer and fall, so, this would be great.

I've seen some notebook makers are putting 2 hard drives in, along with a dual core AMD, but I'm imagining the battery life is nil. Derek
David Jimerson wrote on 2/8/2006, 7:41 AM
Is it 5400 RPM, as the name implies? Yeeeee. Good luck. You might get away with it, but I'd be veeeerrry leery.
John_Cline wrote on 2/8/2006, 7:58 AM
I've captured hours and hours of video to 5400 rpm laptop drives with no issues. DV is only 3.8 megabytes per second and virtually any hard drive these days is easily capable of this.

The areal data density on the newest laptop drives is quite high (and getting higher), for a given rotational speed, much more data is passing under the heads and the drive is capable of higher sustained throughput.

John
David Jimerson wrote on 2/8/2006, 8:03 AM
I kinda figured it would only take a few seconds for someone to come along and say that. : )

While there are success stories, I still wouldn't recommend capuring to it.
riredale wrote on 2/8/2006, 8:33 AM
Dave, really, it doesn't matter any more.

I've captured many hours to even 4200rpm laptop drives.

As mentioned, what really matters is the sustained data rate, and that rate has increased manyfold over the past 5 years. About the only limitation of a "slow" 4200rpm laptop drive is the random access time, which would show up as a slowdown for tasks requiring access to many small files. With video editing, you usually don't have that situation.
David Jimerson wrote on 2/8/2006, 11:04 AM
Fair enough.
FrigidNDEditing wrote on 2/8/2006, 12:29 PM
that's why those new 7200rpm 500GB 16MB buffered HD's are getting faster data rates than the 10K 72's (SATA on both accounts).

that's very cool to see - I do all my editing on a laptop at current and though I have a plethera of External HD's I'd be down with a bigger internal FO SHO.

Dave