Re: [PLUG] videocam

[Paul <paul@dpagin.net>]

For IDE users, two striped drives, 7200rpm with 8MB cache each , would 
help.  I'm sure SCSI offers a better solution.  But, then, why do we 
need two cameras streaming directly to the hard drives?

Chris Hedemark wrote:

> You can have multiple cameras on firewire, but the problem then 
> becomes the speed that your HDD can write two video streams to disk.  
> With a single IDE drive in my laptop, my machine is working pretty 
> hard just to keep up with one camera.

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