On Mon, 13 Sep 1999 18:01:13 -0700, Mike Sin
>I am looking for an IDE hard disk for DV editing with DVRaptor on a P-450 PC.
>
>1. Do I need a Promise FastTrak 66 raid card with 2 drives or more?
No. It is more useful to have seperate multiple drives - one
can move files around to keep drives "clean" (defragging
big drives can take a VERY long time!). The speed of the
RAID is not needed with mini-DV.
>2. Do I need a 7200 rpm drive?
No. Good (recent) 5400rpm UDMA drives generally work fine.
(I've used various IBM models with no problems in several
Spark and one Raptor computer.)
>3. Which one is better:
> Western Digital 27G Expert (7200 rpm)
> Maxtor Diamondmax 6800 27G (5400 rpm)
> Maxtor 27G (7200 rpm)
> IBM Deskstar 25GP (5400 rpm)
> IBM Deskstar 34GXP (27G 7200 rpm)
> IBM Deskstar 37GP (37G 5400 rpm)
They all should work fine.
>Is anybody using one the above drives above with DVRaptor without any drop frames?
Yes - the 8, 16, 20, and 25-gig IBM 5400rpm drives all
have worked fine for us.