Hard Drives as archival devices. at DVinfo.net

Paul St. Denis · October 15th, 2006, 10:19 PM

The specs for HD-SR1 say that you get around 2 hours on the 30GB at 15Mbps (maximum quality).
Around 21 hours on will fit on a 320 GB drive, which retails for $90.00.
Which comes to $4.25 an hour, you can find miniDV tapes for slightly less than this, but there are multiple advantages to a hard drive (smaller storage size for example).

Jack Zhang · October 15th, 2006, 11:54 PM

You can actually get 4 hours on XP mode on the HDR-SR1 so you might want to re-calculate the costs.

Paul St. Denis · October 16th, 2006, 07:37 AM

Based on a review at camcorderinfo.com you get around 10 hours in LP mode at 3Mps, XP is 15Mps hence the 2 hour calculation. Since it is VBR encoding how much time depends on the scene, I was erring on the side of caution.
If you are right Jack then $2.13 would be the price per hour of storage.

October 15th, 2006, 10:19 PM	#1
Paul St. Denis Regular Crew Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Stony Brook NY Posts: 169	Hard Drives as archival devices. The specs for HD-SR1 say that you get around 2 hours on the 30GB at 15Mbps (maximum quality). Around 21 hours on will fit on a 320 GB drive, which retails for $90.00. Which comes to $4.25 an hour, you can find miniDV tapes for slightly less than this, but there are multiple advantages to a hard drive (smaller storage size for example).

October 15th, 2006, 11:54 PM	#2
Jack Zhang Inner Circle Join Date: May 2005 Location: Burnaby, BC, Canada Posts: 3,053	You can actually get 4 hours on XP mode on the HDR-SR1 so you might want to re-calculate the costs.

October 16th, 2006, 07:37 AM	#3
Paul St. Denis Regular Crew Join Date: Nov 2003 Location: Stony Brook NY Posts: 169	Based on a review at camcorderinfo.com you get around 10 hours in LP mode at 3Mps, XP is 15Mps hence the 2 hour calculation. Since it is VBR encoding how much time depends on the scene, I was erring on the side of caution. If you are right Jack then $2.13 would be the price per hour of storage.