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I'm looking to get a new hard drive for using only with fraps.
I'm currently looking at the new Seagate 1TB platter hard drive, but looking at the Seagate 2TB ST2000DM001 which is based on 3 disk and 6 heads is as far as I can tell is not 1TB platter but based on 667GB platters.
Anyone got any feed back on this, and how reliable this is or better recommendation on Harddrive to use with Fraps.
Thanks
Drak
Fraps?
Presumably (?) .... http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/FrapsQuote:
Originally Posted by ChaosSystem
If it its just movies for storage dont see a problem with that drive. Although I did know an owner of PC shop who ranted about seagate for the amount failures he kept getting from customers. Personally never had any problems with both seagates owned. Reliability nowadays can be a case of sods law. Is it a fast drive you are looking for?Large size? or both combined?
If its creation of movies from fraps thats another matter I guess.
Sorry should have explained better.
Will be used solely with program fraps, to capture real time videos from games, so will have to be fast and large.
I use SSD for everything else on my system but they just don’t have enough space to capture of video that fraps generate.
The most important part will be the Write Transfer rate.
How did you get on with this? I've found recording at 1920x1200 to my 2TB drive can get choppy, though fine at 1280x800. Can do the full rez onto the SSD but as you say that won't last you long.
Should point out my 2TB is a Caviar Green, so might be a 5900RPM drive?
How is the Caviar Green? I was looking at getting the similar Barracuda Green, to be used in conjunction with a 128GB M4.Quote:
Originally Posted by CountStex
(Sorry for the slight :offtopic: )
Been fine for me, has all my Steam games on there and some DVD backups. Works flawlessly for that.
Still havent got around to buying one yet, will look into this again in near future.
FYI I did some testing using the video capture in the MSI Afterburner tool this weekend, and did some 1920x1200 compressed recordings without issue. Creates a large file, but I can get about 10x compression running the output through handbrake afterwards which is useful if you are planning on uploading the captures to YouTube or similar.
If you start getting choppiness after a while, just partition the HDD into 2 and only use the first partition for saving FRAPs output.