[MacDV] Re: 200 gig hard drive vs. dividing hard imac drive

[Michael Winter]

On Tuesday, January 14, 2003, at 11:57  AM, XXL wrote:

>> The bandwidth for firewire 400 is so much greater than you need for dv
>> capture that there is enough room to pass the video thru the 
>> harddrive into
>> the computer and then record it onto the drive.
>
> According to Maxtor engineers, FireWire 400 is the limiting factor in
> performance in many drives now.  It is claimed that newer drives are 
> faster
> than the bus. ..just what I read.. Have no idea if it is actually true.

 From the research I've done speccing drives, you're information is 
correct, at least with respect to sustained transfers.

However what the previous poster was referring to is that a real time 
video stream has a fixed bandwidth that is much lower than the 400 Mbps 
that Firewire provides. So it doesn't matter how fast Firewire or the 
drives are, as long as they are faster than the DV stream(s) (which 
they are -thanks sb).

-Mike