On 22 Nov 1998 16:19:41 GMT, johntel@aol.com (JohnTel) wrote:

>Any experience or advice about using the new 7200 Ultrawide IDE drives with
>digital cards, such as, Pinnacles DV300?

It will probably work fine...
(I would suggest using two drives, though - one for capture,
one for editing-to/playing-from.)

>I am a newbie to video editing. I have a Sony digital TRV 900 and would like
>to do NLE. I have Pinnacle's Studio 400 and it works well with the 900, but I
>would still like to move up. A 10 gig Maxtor 7200 rpm is now going for around
>$250. SCSIs seem overpriced, if a new 7200rpm, UDMA drive will suffice.
>
>Pinnacle takes a pretty hard line on IDE drives, however, the DV300 has the
>ability to recapture dropped frames (probably no help in make tape mode).
>Also, I am not sure that Pinnacle is being totally objective, realistic or has
>experience with the new faster drives.

If you read the DPS Spark (same hardware, but without the SCSI
adapter) OK'd hardware list, you would be (I was...;-) too scared
to try UDMA drives - but they work just fine for miniDV work (with
NO dropped frames, assuming dedicated unfragmented video drives...).