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Yeah, it's new. I think it's probably some interface glitch between the card I'm using (a pretty cheap one) and the drive. This drive has both firewire and USB II and the USB II is actually smoother - neither is satisfactory for me.Kim:Is that a fairly new drive Rick? I have an external Firewire drive for school - 7200rpm. I have never had a problem capturing to it - no dropped frames etc. It's completely dedicated as a data drive - if you use one, don't put any program software on it at all.
Kim:You can't avoid Firewire as that is the output from the camera usually. However you could also use an external USB2 drive - it is a faster transfer speed than Firewire as long as nothing else is using the USB bus at the same time. If you get an internal drive get the fastest one possible. If you can afford SCSI then they are the best and fastest.
You can get by with 512 RAM - although more is better and will help with your rendering times. Software is something else. This recent thread has quite a lot of information about current software.