On Thu, 15 Apr 1999 14:02:13 -0400, ar407@freenet.carleton.ca (R. Geoff Baker) wrote:

>I can report from first-hand experience that the Maxtor 17 gig UDMA 5200rpm drive is
>able to capture and output DV video without dropping frames even when not RAIDed.
>The only benefit I would see from adding a FastTrack controller would be the ability
>to use more drives & have a single drive larger than the 17 gigs I'm currently
>using.
>
>Many advised me against it, but my personal DV editing experience has been fine
>using the Maxtor 17 gig UDMA drive.

I agree completely - in my experience, the IBM 16-gig UDMA
drive has worked fine, with no dropped frames with mini-DV.
It even works well with the Canopus DV-Raptor for Premiere
5.1 timeline playback (no RAID, no SCSI needed...). I just
tried it with about 50 minutes of timeline playback to the
camcorder (with many transitions and some color shifts).
I guess it takes (quite) a while for this reality of the useability
of good recent UDMA drives for mini-DV editing to sink in...
(I thought people would be tired of my many comments on this
by now, and would simply accept it! But, I guess not... ;-)