I just bought a new Dell 8200 desktop to use for desktop digital video editing in conjunction with my Sony camcorder. The computer has a 80gig, 7200 rpm drive with 1gig RAM. I also bought the Pinnacle DV500plus capture card. I've captured video seamlessly and everything works correctly. Although, someone had told me that to tackle video editing correctly, you should probably have a second drive dedicated to the video editing. Sounds great! I have the money and would like to purchase a second drive. I would like to know 2 things: Do you think its necessary? and ..What kind of 2nd hard drive? (internal, external, firewire, sczi?) I've been looking at all kinds of drives that have 7200rpm-15k rpm since this is important in video capture, although if i'm already capturing to my already installed card on my original drive, do i need fast rpm? Or do i just use the extra drive for storage only?
I would appreciate any info you can give me. I'm very new to desktop video editing.
thanks!
Jimmy

Well, if you are not editing movies more than an hour in length, I doubt you need another HDD. A 80Gb drive is more than enough for less than 3-hour videos. While you might be slowed down by the fact that your OS and other applications are on the same drive as the edited video, there's no big deal if you can live with it.
Now, if you really want another drive, I suggest the Seagate Barracuda IV with 80Gb. It doesn't deliver peak performance like some other HDDs, but it remains fast and constant throughout the medium, which is important for video editing.

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Western Digital Hard Drives are Extremly fast, with 8mb Cache... WD100jb, (100gb) or the WD120jb (120gb) very fast drives...probley good for Video Editing.. Im not a Master in Editing, but i know thats a Fast HD..
Hope that helped...later... In your Situation, i wouldn't Get another drive, i would go with what the Guy said Above me...


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