[Walker]

I'm going to purchase an external firewire drive with which I'd like to use for storing movies from my digital camcorder, and then I use iMovie and Toast 5.0 to make VCD's. (My 20 gig hard drive in my B/W G3 400 doesn't last very long when I download a movie onto it.) After doing a lot of research, I've found a pretty good buy at Other world Computing for a 5400 hard drive, and the 7200 hard drives are much higher priced than I wanted to pay.

Is a 5400 rpm hard drive too slow to do video editing? Anyone here have any personal experience with this?

Thanks for your advice,

lw

[Disgruntled Head of C-3PO]

5400 RPM is fine without a doubt.

[Paul S]

5400 is certainly fine. It's what Apple ships standard in all iMacs, B&W G3s and early G4s. All you need is about 4MB/s for digital video. Most 5400rpm drives can sustain in the mid to upper 20MB/s. The only time faster rotational speeds make a big difference is large file transfers or copying large files.