Pinnacle Capture

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Pinnacle Capture

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Mike Johnson

2005-03-26 10:14:48 UTC

I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but,
I am useing Pinnacle Plus 9.4 to capture family video, if the 200 Gb
harddrive is on my normal IDE interface the "Test Data Rate" is about 25440,
If I put the drive on to the RAID interface (useing it as a normal IDE
interface) which is where I would prefer it to be, the "Test Data Rate"
drops to 10770!
Anyone any constructive suggestions

Regards
Mike

Cpt.Blackadder

2005-05-26 14:50:36 UTC

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Hmmm
Raids are great but not for everthing - They keep data nice and save in case
of hardware failure - well they don't always but that is another story.
Beacause of this unless you have a really powerful expensive SCSI raid the
thru put can really suffer.

I reccomend for video capture using non raid IDE interfaces and a
dedicated Hard drive. Pinnacle (Which is a fantastic product if you treat it
right and give it a lot of TLC) puts a lot of information through the
drives. It needs the best speed it can get!

Capt. Black

Post by Mike Johnson
I'm not sure if this is the right place to ask but,
I am useing Pinnacle Plus 9.4 to capture family video, if the 200 Gb
harddrive is on my normal IDE interface the "Test Data Rate" is about 25440,
If I put the drive on to the RAID interface (useing it as a normal IDE
interface) which is where I would prefer it to be, the "Test Data Rate"
drops to 10770!
Anyone any constructive suggestions
Regards
Mike

Stephen Land

2005-06-16 22:16:21 UTC

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Mike,

One thing to check is if there are updated RAID drivers for your
motherboard. I found that the WinXP native drivers were not nearly as fast
as those supplied by the chipset manufacturer.

Stephen