Laptop Hard Drive Speed for Video Capture

Artimus wrote on 7/23/2002, 6:32 PM
Hello out there,
I am trying to put together a system that will allow me to capture a SINGLE stream of video to a laptop hard drive. I haven't bought anything at this point, I'm just trying to put components together on paper. The trouble is that I've heard that laptop hard drives are not fast enough for video capture (DV format) and that you need at least a 7200 RPM drive. The fastest laptop hard drive I can find is just 5600 RPM. Does anyone have any experience capturing to a laptop??

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Tyler.Durden wrote on 7/23/2002, 6:43 PM
Sony Vaio laptops do it no sweat...

Bear in mind, since DV is compressed data, a single stream can run on/off drives spinning @less than 7200rpm without much trouble. (Just keep other CPU tasks at a minimum.)

External 1394 drives work well with laptops too.

HTH, MPH