Thanks Barry for wishing me good luck. I guess my "German English" must
be a bit
confusing sometimes. I never wrote ( I think) that I had a problem with
recording straight
onto the HDD via the laptop instead onto tape. I have been doing this
for a few years now
and NEVER had a single dropout or problem.
A while back I recorded 2 1/2 days (14hours) in chunks of 1 to 2 hours -
no problem.
Like many others I record this way to minimize mechanical wear in the
camera and to
save time.
No long winded capturing.
As I wrote earlier it just puzzled me to get different results when
checking the drive in
Win7 and XP.
Did my recording last night, plugged the drive into the editing computer
and started editing.
Have a nice day
Uwe
> If you are using the external drive as a normal hard drive, (normal means
> dumping files one at a time onto it,) in theory it shouldn't really be
> fragmented at all, the files are logically 'placed' by the controller, in
> order. Some fragmentation will exist, but nowhere near the amount that an
> internal system drive will become, where files are being thrown all over the
> place, scattering large files in any available slot.
>
> I once tried copying from a firewire drive to an external USB drive, what a
> disaster! What should of taken a matter of minutes took hours. A laptop
> will probably use the same I/O controller for both and be much worse, so I
> would do a test run first.
> Failing that, clear the laptop's hard drive (unwanted/needed files) onto the
> external and use the laptop drive for the camera, different I/O circuitry
> and 'should' sustain the full data rate. Otherwise I perceive dropouts will
> occur.
>
> Use IObit's "advanced windows care" defrag (in the advanced tools I think),
> that's really quick and should speed the laptop up at least for this
> purpose.
>
> Good luck!
>
> Barry.
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