Hi Michael From practical experience that is not wholly the case I have a 667MHz Ti and a 1.5GHz Al and both of them will happily capture a full hour of single stream DV via firewire The Ti with a 60GB 4200-rpm drive and the Al with an 80GB 5400-rpm drive The Al shares the 167Mhz System Bus with the Mac mini Alex On 17 Jan 2005, at 08:35, Michael Kristensen wrote: > Hi there > > I have read many times that DV capuring required a 7200 drive to be > reliable. > > The new Mac Mini have only a 4200 drive. > > How will that affect DV capturing? > > Kind regards > Michael Kristensen > > _______________________________________________ > MacDV mailing list > MacDV at listserver.themacintoshguy.com > http://listserver.themacintoshguy.com/mailman/listinfo/macdv >