On Tue, 25 Aug 1998 10:19:19 +0100, si@NOSPAM.juggler.net wrote:

>I am getting a system together for DV editing and need a bit of advice.
>
>I'll probably be using MotoDV or some decent capture card, and a 300MHz
>PII (or possibly K6 2- I've been following that thread too.) 128MB RAM.
>
>Is it recommended that I get a SCSI drive or could I just use a big UDMA
>drive without compromising speed too much?
>
>Any recommendations on which setup to go for.

(Also read nearby threads...;-)
Fast UDMA drives work just fine for mini-DV editing, at least with
the Spark... (the DV minimum sustained data transfer rate of about
3.6 MB/sec [no peaks need be accomodated...] is rather easy for
many newer IDE drives).