• After witnessing the continued decrease of involvement in the SpotterNetwork staff in serving SN members with troubleshooting issues recently, I have unilaterally decided to terminate the relationship between SpotterNetwork's support and Stormtrack. I have witnessed multiple users unable to receive support weeks after initiating help threads on the forum. I find this lack of response from SpotterNetwork officials disappointing and a failure to hold up their end of the agreement that was made years ago, before I took over management of this site. In my opinion, having Stormtrack users sit and wait for so long to receive help on SpotterNetwork issues on the Stormtrack forums reflects poorly not only on SpotterNetwork, but on Stormtrack and (by association) me as well. Since the issue has not been satisfactorily addressed, I no longer wish for the Stormtrack forum to be associated with SpotterNetwork.

    I apologize to those who continue to have issues with the service and continue to see their issues left unaddressed. Please understand that the connection between ST and SN was put in place long before I had any say over it. But now that I am the "captain of this ship," it is within my right (nay, duty) to make adjustments as I see necessary. Ending this relationship is such an adjustment.

    For those who continue to need help, I recommend navigating a web browswer to SpotterNetwork's About page, and seeking the individuals listed on that page for all further inquiries about SpotterNetwork.

    From this moment forward, the SpotterNetwork sub-forum has been hidden/deleted and there will be no assurance that any SpotterNetwork issues brought up in any of Stormtrack's other sub-forums will be addressed. Do not rely on Stormtrack for help with SpotterNetwork issues.

    Sincerely, Jeff D.

Hard Drive Speed and Video capture/editing

Bill Hark

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While looking a laptops, I have noticed that many of the "thin and light" models (including ones by Sony) have hard drive speeds of 4200. Is it still possible to capture video and do some basic editing with hard drives of 4200 rpm. I don't plan on editing chase highlights but would like to put together segments of storm video on the road for posting or to be sent to TWC or other outlets.

Bill Hark
 
I upgraded my hard drive on my Dell laptop to the Hitachi 7K60, which is a 60gb drive with 7200RPM. The performance gain from the previous 4200RPM drive was quite noticeable, mainly for those applications that relied heavily on data write/read...
 
My laptop has a 7200 RPM hard drive and still hiccups a lot at capturing and editing video. I wouldn't want to even try on one with anything less.
 
I have a 5400RPM hard drive in my Compaq Presario and it works just fine! I've captured, rendered, and edited video with no issues what-so-ever. I also have a gig of ram and an AMD64 processor which I'm sure helps the cause!
 
I have imported and edited video from my miniDV camcorder using the Firewire port and I have had no problems at all and it had a 4200rpm hard drive in it (it has a 7200rpm drive in it as of tonight). Factor like processor speed, memory speed & amount, Firewire or USB and system cache play a factor it it as well.
 
I agree that there are MANY factors involved here that could affect this process (hard drive rotational speed, front-side bus speed, processor, RAM, etc). However, having the fastest hard drive certainly wouldn't hurt. I would say that, more important than hard drive speed IMO, you should really try to have as much RAM installed as possible. I'm currently at 1GB, and would like to go higher if not for the very high prices of 1gb sticks for my laptop (512mb+512mb currently -- only two slots).
 
No problems here

I run a stock 40gig in my laptop and I KNOW it's not 7200 but via firewire, I have not a single issue... I can even run the WMV HD files on it with almost no issues.

I also have plenty of Ram (512m) and keep my setup pretty lean... nothing running in the background.

Shawn
 
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