I read a review a while back on Tom's Hardware comparing the Maxtor 80 to a variety of other drives, and the Maxtor 80 frequently tied or beat drives with faster rpm's. I seem to remember it had to do that the track density minimizing head usage and head movement. I doubt this would apply when comparing a 75GB to an 80GB though... Jason DeStefano wrote: > > I picked up a Maxtor 80gig at Best But a couple week ago cause > I need more space to store ripped DVD when I encode them. The > drive works great. If you dont need super fast disk access then > 5400 is a pretty cheap way to go. The higher data density offsets > the lower spindle speed so for sustained xfers it should compete > well with 40-60gb 7200 rpm drives. I buy cheap drives for extra > storage and a really fast one for my primary system drive. > > At 12:03 AM 2/19/01 -0600, you wrote: > > Hi, > > > >On Sun, 18 Feb 2001, Austad, Jay wrote: > > > >> at 21:00 vcr -p MTV -r 1860 jackass.avi > > > >You're actually admitting to that? > > > >> A 30 minute show ends up being about 175MB at 384x288. So most movies will > >> fit on a CDR. Now if there was only a way to make it automatically stop > >> recording during commercials. I wonder if Broadcast 2000 can edit DivX > >> files.... > > > >No, it can't. Neither can Microsoft Movie Maker that comes with WinME. > > > >Plus, vcr's fast motion divx is giving me pretty horrible quality. I've > >been using MPEG4 which is just as bad ane takes up more space, but at > >least I can edit it on my wife's machine. > > > >Problem is I'm out of diskspace. So what do you guys say, IBM Deskstar > >7200RPM 75GB or Matrox 5400RPM 80GB? > > >