Currently, I have an 80gig HD, which I’m primarily using for video capture. However, this is simply too tight of an amount for me to work worry free. So I’m looking for an HD that’s at least 160gig and of high quality. Since I know virtually nothing about Hard Drives, I was hoping I could get some good suggestions.
All I do know is that the drive needs a fast transfer rate, lest frames get dropped during capturing. Thanks!
(If it matters, I’m currenty running on a Sony Vaio, 1.6 ghz P4, 512 RAM)
Hi Duderdude2
I was just talking to my “guru” in Denmark about this. Here’s his reply:
I’d get an Adaptec 19160 SCSI controller and a couple of 73 GB SCSI drives (160 or 320 Mbit/s) - preferrably Maxtor or Seagate. If money isn’t an issue, then get a 39160 SCSI controller (320 MBit/s) on 2 channels.
Alternately I would look at S-ATA drives - best buy looks like 2 x 80 GB drives running at 150 MBit/s transfer rate. But this may require a S-ATA controller card, depending on his system configuration.
Speaking as an Apple Certified repair tech, i’ll add the following caveat, there are certain brands of drive to AVOID…
the IBM/Hitachi DeskStar line (euphamistically referred to in the 'biz as the “Deathstar” line), very high failure rate, extremely uneliable, crappy drives, avoid them
personally, i’ve had bad luck with older Western Digital drives, but they seem to have gotten better recently, i have a WD 120 that i have in an external FireWire case, and that drive has been moed to well over 100 machines, sometimes i pull it out of the case and mount it in a G4 tower to test it, that drive’s seen hard use and has not failed (yet), still, i don’t completely trust WD drives
as far as the good drives go, Seagate, Quantum and Maxtor all are good, i know some people have had badluck with maxtors, but i have 4 maxtors (10, 30, 40, and 120 GB) drives that are still running and are quite reliable