[MacDV] Re: Firewire drive rotation speed

[Michael Winter]

On Wednesday, January 15, 2003, at 06:48  AM, XXL wrote:

> Rotation speed is just one factor in drive performance.  The real 
> measure is
> probably best expressed as throughput.  Speed and latency are related. 
> And a
> slower device can have greater throughput if latency is favorable.
>
> In general 7200 RPM drives with the Oxford chipset (Oxford is on is 
> all of
> them these days) will give you fairly similar performance that is fine 
> for
> DV capture.

I agree with everything above, but wanted to point out that in many 
cases sustained transfer rates are limited by Firewire, not the drive. 
So make sure any benchmarks you look at are for the drive in a Firewire 
enclosure, not for the drive as it would be installed an an internal 
drive.

-Mike