Hard Drive RPMs

lsulli2 wrote on 1/3/2003, 11:37 AM

VV3 system reqs suggest a hard drive running at 7200 RPMs. Anybody running on a laptop with a slower drive? What speed? Happy with it? Looking to edit on the road. Don't want to go too light, but don't want to pony up for a AAA multimedia machine, either. Thanks.

Vegas Tech Support suggested I post this query. They said 7200 works best, but plenty of people were using the program on laptops and pleased with the results.

Lloyd

Comments

Zulqar-Cheema wrote on 1/4/2003, 1:29 PM

I run it on a laptop at 4700rpm and it captures just fine, 1.4Ghz AMD, 40Gb drive
I think the drive is a Toshiba.

ramallo wrote on 1/4/2003, 6:35 PM

Hello,

Me too with a Hitachi 40GB 4800.

Cheers

VideoDentist wrote on 1/4/2003, 7:58 PM

5500 RPM Lacie 2.2 ghz Gateway Laptop through a Firewire. Works Great

PAW wrote on 1/5/2003, 5:02 PM

RPM's is a point in time figure.

If you take into account how a disk is made up of sectors/cylinders/platters and it all fits into 3.5" the greater the capacity the greater the throughput at a given RPM which is what matters when streaming data such as AV.

The drive implementation - cache, firmware, zone bit rates etc have a big part to play in the performance of a drive. Usually the bus speed is not so critical as it out performs a single drive, which is what matters with AV ( a pint of water can not be poured down a 24 inch pipe any quicker than a 12 inch pipe).

Having said all that go for the fastest RPM you can as it is all relative. By the time the 120GB 5200 RPM drives were shipping the 7200 were just behind. The recommendation for 7200 RPM was probably made when the maximum capacity available was 30GB :-)

Hope that helps.

lsulli2 wrote on 1/7/2003, 1:15 PM

Appreciate the input, er throughput.