X-Banned_Bob
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Jun 15, 2003, 5:27 PM
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: 4.not maxtors! lol.. i've heard of problems using
: maxtor's for video before... that was in pc world
I've used almost all Maxtors in Avios, Krons and PCs. Extremely little problem with them. The problem is typically NOT with the drives, but with the controllers or something else in some Avio/Krons.
My aging PC (1.4MHz) has four 5400 RPM Maxtor drives (60GB, 80GB, 100GB & 120GB). Using Avid Xpress DV 3.5, it's no problem to play back 3 layers of DV video with effects on them in real time. I've done sustained read/write test and they always run at least 20MB/sec datarate. DV is about 3.6MB/sec. Granted, they probably would be a lot faster if I had newer hardware, a better hard drive controller, tweaked them a lot, and did some defragmenting once in a while -- but I'm too cheap and lazy for all that -- after all, it's working just fine now.
OTOH, on the Kron and the Avios, after adding the expensive firewire cards, apparently have some severe hardware limitations. Instead of purring along at more than 20MB/second, they have trouble keeping up with one stream of 3.6MB/second data in the DV-Direct mode. They were really designed for the MPEG2 mode, maxing out at about 2.1MB/second. It's a real shame that you have to over-buy hard drives (faster than 5400RPM, bigger buffers, more expensive names) to get over this hump.
But Chris, back to your problem. If your unit is bogging down at quality 7 with a 7200RPM drive, I would think either the hard drive or the unit is certifiably defective. I've never had even a stutter in the MPEG modes with Maxtor 5400RPM drives.
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