• VEGAS Pro

  External SATA drive

  Posted by Rc on October 30, 2005 at 10:16 pm

  Would an external SATA drive (with pci card controller) give better performance for capture than firewire or usb2? Computer is AMD 64 x 2 4200.
  Thanks in advance.

  Rc replied 20 years, 6 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Gary Kleiner

  October 30, 2005 at 11:32 pm

  What are you capturing? If DV, then firewire/usb2 is quite sufficient.

  Gary
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  Rc

  October 31, 2005 at 2:34 pm

  Thanks, Gary. Capturing DV, but when looking for external drives I noticed the external SATA drive kit for about the same money and was intrigued. Anyone tried one yet?
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  John Baum

  October 31, 2005 at 9:59 pm

  I actually have an external enclosure that holds 2 SATA drives that I RAID0’d together. I used two open channels from my 8 channel Raid controller card and they have almost the same speed as my 4 disk RAID 5 Array. Plenty of speed to play multiple streams of uncompressed SD video.
  And yes, a single drive will also be much faster then a Firewire or USB2 external.
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  Rc

  October 31, 2005 at 11:38 pm

  Thanks for the info, ghobii. I think that’s the route I’ll go.
  Nice work on your site, by the way.

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