Hard Drives

[iceyc0ld]

Hey guys so been recording and uploading to youtube lately and I recently built this PC with a 1 .5 tb hard drive and oh my does fraps eat up gigabytes !!! I have uploaded 4 videos and they are all together 153 GB

So I have a question, say I get a second hard drive, and I install fraps on it will I see a lot less lag in my games ? Also, if I want to put the second drive internal, will I HAVE to put it in RAID? Can't I just have it inside like an external hard drive with no Raid ?

And if I do go external are there any like 300-600 GB external's that are 7200 rpms but cheap?

Thanks

 

[Night Fox]

RAID is not necessary for multiple drives. Running fraps on a second drive might help, I'm not really sure...I would think it would at least help some being that screen recorders need to write files quickly and constantly...perhaps try an SSD with fraps on it?

Suggestion: You might consider trying xfire video recording for games...it doesn't have a watermark on the video and I think it has better quality...but that's my opinion.

 

[iceyc0ld]

okay so i can just put in the drive and connect the sata and windows will pick it up

 

[Night Fox]

yup

 

[iceyc0ld]

can you suggest me a cheap 300-500gb on newegg ? 7200 rpm ?

 

[Night Fox]

Newegg.com - Western Digital Caviar Blue WD5000AAKX 500GB 7200 RPM 16MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

This is a cheap one, but only has 16mb cache, so it won't be very fast. (you do have SATA III right?)

 

[iceyc0ld]

yeah

 

[Night Fox]

Newegg.com - Western Digital Caviar Black WD5002AALX 500GB 7200 RPM 32MB Cache SATA 6.0Gb/s 3.5" Internal Hard Drive -Bare Drive

I would at least get something with 32mb cache, but if you are willing to spend more, 64mb would be better, but the lowest capacity I can find for 64mb cache is 640 gb

 

[TheMajor]

The amount of cache has absolutely no influence on the speed at which it can store Fraps captures.

 

[Night Fox]

I don't see how that can be true...cache stores information before it gets written to the drive...so larger cache would mean more frames can be stored at a time which would raise the performance of Fraps. How can it have no influence?