How much HD video can I get on a 1TB harddrive? How many minutes/hours?

Re HD video - is it mpeg2 compressed just like it came off the tape? In which case 13 GB translates to 63 minutes of video, plus or minus.

Or has it been run through a codec like Cineform, in which case it will depend on a lot of factors. Or is it completely uncompressed?

For HDV, about 75 hours.

Thanks. I guess it was just a general question on how many hours. I really don't know what format to keep it in. I want to store it all for backup purposes in lieu of keeping it on tape.

Looks like I need to search the boards... Thanks for the 75 hr. answer. That's JUST what I was looking for... a ballpark answer.

I hope you are keeping it on tape as well because a Hard Drive is a mechanical device that will stop working one day.

Just look at all those ipods that don't work anymore.

I will have everything all backed up on tape, but I have a lot of clips that I reuse over and over, so those will be on the hard drive for easy access.

As a follow up, how much SD video for DVD would fit on 1 TB? Ballpark...

I will have everything all backed up on tape, but I have a lot of clips that I reuse over and over, so those will be on the hard drive for easy access.

As a follow up, how much SD video for DVD would fit on 1 TB? Ballpark...

Depends on how much the DVD material is compressed. A single sided DVD holds about 4.3GB and a typical retail DVD has perhaps 2 hours of material. On 1TB, you'd get about 1TB / 4.3GB x 2 hours = 465 hours. So a reasonable ballpark would be 400 - 500 hours. But it depends on the amount of compression (i.e., the bitrate).

If you know the bitrate (in Mbps) for your typical material, then the ballpark would be:

(2222 / bitrate) hours