On Mon, 07 Sep 1998 20:25:15 -0500, Jim Jones wrote:

>SCSI is twice to three times the price of IDE and is no more reliable in my
>personal expierence. If sustained thruput is needed, SCSI is required. For
>average throughput, don't expect to see a difference.
>
>To capture from DV an IDE will work because you can rewind and reread and
>pick up what was missed. Wrtiting back to tape or printing to tape if you
>will, requires sustained thoughput in order not to drop frames.

The IBM Deskstar 8, 14, and 16 (and probably several other UDMA drives,
if AV-rated) work fine for single-pass capture and play-back
of NCTS mini-DV without dropped frames...