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using old cpu hard-drive for video storage

  • 29-06-2004 7:08pm
    #1
    daveathome_16
    Closed Accounts Posts: 145 ✭✭


    i can get an old windows 95 computer if i want one.....

    it prob has small cpu processer but i was wondering if i would be able to network it to my windows 98 computer to use for space if i was editing video footage

    any help is appreciated


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  • #2
    SantaHoe
    Closed Accounts Posts: 7,488 ✭✭✭SantaHoe


    You could... but by the sounds of it, it'd be a waste of time... going on the description of "old windows 95 machine", the odds are that the harddrive is going to be fairly small.
    Consider that 5 minutes of DV footage takes 1 Gig of storage... find out what capacity the other harddrive is, and ask yourself is it worth the bother.
    Ok, you can compress the DV footage with something like Div-X and have the same footage down to ~100MB with a small quality trade-off and archive it that way.
    Personally I wouldn't bother unless it had a few hundred Gigs available.

    But there again, what would be even more simple in this case would be to physically remove the Windows95 machines harddrive and add it to your main PC as a second harddrive.
    You've got the space you wanted, and you don't have to worry about networking or having a second PC/keyboard/monitor set up.

    Also worth noting that you'll probably be wanting to use an NTFS filesystem (Win2k/XP) as opposed to Windows9x's FAT32/FAT16, the reason being, the latter can't handle files larger than 4 Gigs... although that probably won't be a problem unless you're working on a much larger project like DVD'ing your holiday to Spain or something.
    Besides, a lot of programs will allow you to segment your footage to files of whatever size you want.


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