Laptop for editing

Rick Spilman · June 18th, 2003, 10:53 AM

On my desktop editor I got rid of my scsi drives about a year ago. Too hot, noisy and expensive. I am very happy with my new cheap EIDE 5400 drives.

Just my experience.

Rob Lohman · June 18th, 2003, 05:36 PM

I'n running 1400x1050. Max my screen goes. It looks very nice on
my DELL's LCD screen and I don't ever want any lower resolution
again.

Laptop's drives aren't the speediest ones around indeed,
althought I really haven't experienced dropped frames on mine.

I bought myself an external firewire drive (7200 rpm) and have
been quite happy with it.

Dave Gardner · June 19th, 2003, 12:49 AM

I'm about to make the plunge into DV editing and must have portability. I have the impression I'll be better off with a separate system drive from media drive, and that 7200 rpm would be valuable for the media. I also want to burn DVDs, so I'm thinking at least one of these drives will have to be external. Any advice about what should be internal or external, USB vs. firewire for these items, and if I want to be able to capture analog as well as DV, will I need a third party capture card?

Mike Moncrief · June 19th, 2003, 02:14 AM

Hello,

I believe your thinking is right in having a separate drive for your media.. There are some nice Firewire and USB2 (you want to make sure you go with USB2 and not USB1.1) drives out now that are external and 7200 rpm.. I have seen them as big as 200 gig..Pretty nice for storing your video..Firewire and USB2 are pretty close in speed with the USB2 getting the edge.. But there may be more firewire drives available, only becuase it has been out longer..As far as burning DVD's ... I was going to buy a laptop with a DVD burner, but it looks like the internal ones are slower in write speed (usually a 1x) versus some of the external ones which can write as high 4X..So I will probably opt for an external burner..

As far as Analog cards.. Hmm not up on those so i will refrain from any comments..

mike

Rob Lohman · June 19th, 2003, 05:23 AM

Keep in mind that not all systems have an USB2 port. So you
might need to upgrade those (if possible). I bought a Maxtor
5000DV 160 gb harddisk (they go to 250 gb) which has two
firewire ports and one USB2 (and 1.1) port. It is a 7200 rpm drive
with 8 MB cache.

It does always require a seperate power brick to work and
you need to install drivers (500 kb) on every OS I tried it on
(Win 2000 / XP).

June 18th, 2003, 05:36 PM	#17
Rob Lohman RED Code Chef Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Holland Posts: 12,514	I'n running 1400x1050. Max my screen goes. It looks very nice on my DELL's LCD screen and I don't ever want any lower resolution again. Laptop's drives aren't the speediest ones around indeed, althought I really haven't experienced dropped frames on mine. I bought myself an external firewire drive (7200 rpm) and have been quite happy with it. __________________ Rob Lohman, visuar@iname.com DV Info Wrangler & RED Code Chef Join the DV Challenge \| Lady X Search DVinfo.net for quick answers \| Buy from the best: DVinfo.net sponsors

June 19th, 2003, 12:49 AM	#18
Dave Gardner New Boot Join Date: Jun 2003 Location: Colorado Springs, CO Posts: 6	Laptop NLE I'm about to make the plunge into DV editing and must have portability. I have the impression I'll be better off with a separate system drive from media drive, and that 7200 rpm would be valuable for the media. I also want to burn DVDs, so I'm thinking at least one of these drives will have to be external. Any advice about what should be internal or external, USB vs. firewire for these items, and if I want to be able to capture analog as well as DV, will I need a third party capture card?

June 19th, 2003, 02:14 AM	#19
Mike Moncrief Major Player Join Date: Mar 2003 Location: orlando florida Posts: 426	Hello, I believe your thinking is right in having a separate drive for your media.. There are some nice Firewire and USB2 (you want to make sure you go with USB2 and not USB1.1) drives out now that are external and 7200 rpm.. I have seen them as big as 200 gig..Pretty nice for storing your video..Firewire and USB2 are pretty close in speed with the USB2 getting the edge.. But there may be more firewire drives available, only becuase it has been out longer..As far as burning DVD's ... I was going to buy a laptop with a DVD burner, but it looks like the internal ones are slower in write speed (usually a 1x) versus some of the external ones which can write as high 4X..So I will probably opt for an external burner.. As far as Analog cards.. Hmm not up on those so i will refrain from any comments.. mike __________________ Mike Moncrief mikemoncrief@gmail.com www.themikemoncrief.com

June 19th, 2003, 05:23 AM	#20
Rob Lohman RED Code Chef Join Date: Oct 2001 Location: Holland Posts: 12,514	Keep in mind that not all systems have an USB2 port. So you might need to upgrade those (if possible). I bought a Maxtor 5000DV 160 gb harddisk (they go to 250 gb) which has two firewire ports and one USB2 (and 1.1) port. It is a 7200 rpm drive with 8 MB cache. It does always require a seperate power brick to work and you need to install drivers (500 kb) on every OS I tried it on (Win 2000 / XP). __________________ Rob Lohman, visuar@iname.com DV Info Wrangler & RED Code Chef Join the DV Challenge \| Lady X Search DVinfo.net for quick answers \| Buy from the best: DVinfo.net sponsors

June 18th, 2003, 10:53 AM	#16
Rick Spilman Major Player Join Date: Dec 2002 Location: Jersey City, NJ Posts: 366	On my desktop editor I got rid of my scsi drives about a year ago. Too hot, noisy and expensive. I am very happy with my new cheap EIDE 5400 drives. Just my experience.