On 1 Nov 1998 22:10:41 GMT, johntel@aol.com (JohnTel) wrote:

>I need a new hard drive for a 266 MMX machine.
>
>Sometime in the next year I would like to begin a modest digital editing hobby,
>using digital video and Hi8 formats. Sure would be nice if one of the Ultra
>DMA drives would suffice (Maxtor has a 17.2 Gig drive for around $360).

For mini-DV, the new UDMA drives can work fine since the data transfer
rate is constant, and moderate. For high-quality digitization of analogue
materials, the data rate may be too near the minimum
sustained data transfer rate of many drives, requiring the fastest
drives, or other solutions. There is another solution to this:
buy a Sony TRV-9 or TRV-900 mini-DV camcorder (which have analogue
inputs which enables the making of DV copies of the Hi-8 tapes),
or the new Sony A/D-D/A converter to get your Hi-8 footage into
DV format for the computer...
BTW, it may be more useful to have two (smaller, if necessary)
drives dedicated to video work than one - one for capture, and
one for rendering to and playing back from...

Hey, those in US - VOTE TUESDAY November 3rd!
(Maybe we can quiet that Re-Bublican yapping and nipping
at the heels of Clinton, and maybe get a "do-something"
Congress in the bargain!)