>For video, there is an additional consideration. Modern drives use RLL
>recording techniques that require periodic recalibration of the head
>position. During the recalibration process, the drive does not accept data
>to be written. In a video stream, such an interruption would cause loss of
>video information.

I have two computers set up with RAID 0 for video capture. One running RAID
0 Hardware as a capture partition, with two Ultra 100 2 meg cache WD 72K 60
GB drives. And the second computer running a RAID 0 Software with a 72K
Ultra 133 Maxtor DiamondMax 40 GB  and a Ultra 100 DiamondMax 30 GB.
These are both set up for video capture using regular drives .... and I
don't have this problem?

Rode
The NOSPIN Group
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>To avoid this problem, you need a drive that can delay
>its recalibration. Such drives are designed with video in mind and also cost
>a lot more.

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