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Posted by Gene on 02/22/07 20:50
You can get ~ 90+ minutes (~20GB) on a MiniDV camcorder tape:-)
Wonder if that would be enough to make the movie
look OK? It's probably a little better than a double
sided DVD.
$400 for a 1TB sounds like a fair price:
http://www.reghardware.co.uk/2007/01/05/hitachi_unveils_first_1tb_hdd/
Gene
"Jan Panteltje" <pNaonStpealmtje@yahoo.com> wrote in message
news:erktje$h07$1@news.datemas.de...
> On a sunny day (Thu, 22 Feb 2007 14:35:11 -0500) it happened "Smarty"
> <nobody@nobody.com> wrote in
> <IeWdnaWQ04rybUDYnZ2dnUVZ_qemnZ2d@adelphia.com>:
>
>>Jan,
>>
>>What a refreshing and intelligent reply! I've done a bit of research on
>>this
>>specific topic, and it appears that "Port Multiplication" with SATA drives
>>in a RAID is an available and more than adequate solution. The web link
>>cited below shows simple to achieve 230 MB/sec performance and offers a
>>solution up to around 265 MB/sec as well.
>>
>>
>>http://www.macgurus.com/productpages/sata/PortMultiplicationGuide.php
>>
>>This will certainly fill disk drives quickly!!
>>
>>Given that cable boxes and satellite boxes are not generally providing
>>HDCP
>>over HDMI, this would appear to be an alternative method to directly
>>capture
>>cable and satellite HDTV at full resolution.
>>
>>Smarty
>
> Good info, thank you, good to know somebody already did all this..
> Yes, it will take a lot of space:
> at 200 MB / s for 90 minutes 90 x 60 x 200 = 1 080 000 MB say 1.1 Tera
> Byte.
> That is if you wanted to record a movie.
> It would not be so good if you recorded from a settop box, or even from a
> DVD player,
> as the source would be mpeg2 or similar, and that is better recorded as
> .ps or
> transport stream, taking much less space.
> But for directly from a HD camera it is the right stuff.
> Then you need more space for editing, at least double the space, 10TB
> would be nice.
> Now let's extrapolate a bit:
> In the 1980 ties we were at 10MB for a harddisk.
> Now, say 20 years later, we are at 500 MB.
> A factor 50 in 20 years.
> So perhaps 10 years from now we have the 12 TB harddisks....
> In 5 years from now the 6 TB, and that would be enough already.
> Just to know where it will go :-)
>
>
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