Hi... I'm capturing video from a Sony Digital 8 camcorder via firewire to my core i7 system with an external hard drive (Seagate GoFlex 3TB drive)
I think the drive is 5400 but I can't seem to find that level of detail in windows 7.
While the drive supports USB3, my computer only supports USB2.
Over the 2 hour capture using WinDV program, I will typically have 1000 dropped frames. I tried going to my internal SATA drive and had no dropped frames.
It seems to me that if the drive can keep up most of the time, why can't it keep up all of the time?
I've ordered a USB3 - PCI card to see if that helps but curious if others can save from firewire to external USB 2 drive OR what else I could do.
Note I did plug the drive directly into the PC (in case the USB2 hub was causing a problem).
Thanks
Tim