4200rpm disk and firewire Video editing

Hi guys ,
I intend to buy a Vaio AR520E notebook for daily tasks but also in order to use it for Video Editing interfaced through a firewire connection to my Sony DCR115 Digital Video Camera .
I just realized that this notebook is supplied with a 200G SATA 4200rpm disk . I am afraid that a 4200 rpm disk may cause problems in transsfering the video data from the camera to the notebook .
I would like to ask you if do you think that a 4200 rpm hard drive can work properly on a video transfering and editing task or should I buy a new disk with a higher rpm ?

Thanks !

 

it should work, it will just be slow. I recommend getting a 5400rpm atleast.

 

There are many high RPM drives on the market at the moment. I would suggest upgrading at least to a 5400rpm drive as you would see phenomenal returns in performance. I suggest going with a HITACHI Travelstar 7K200 200Gb. Excellent performance and size or for more storage space and slightly lower performance (compared to the 7200RPM drives) and price go with the Western digital Scorpio SATA 250Gb 5400rpm (I have it in the Passport portable USB drive form). Most other manufacturers have drive at 5400rpm and 250 and I think the Samsung comes in at the cheapest. To answer your question it will work with the 4200rpm drive but you would see far better performance from the higher speed drives.

 

Tom's Hardware's 2.5" HDD charts show a minimum write data transfer rate of about 20MB/s. This is over 1GB/minute and this should not be a problem.

However, HDD performance starts to matter if you start doing editing which involves concurrent reading and writing off the same HDD, in which case performance will be lees than half since read and write have to share the same channel. If you get any external HDD and then read from one disk and write to the other the processing will be much faster.

John

 

Um. No. It will not work. I've tried using a 4200 rpm drive with video editing applications and it cannot keep up with the data being streamed from the camera. It errors out. The drive needs to be able to keep up with the a/v data stream from the camera, and a 4200 rpm drive cannot.