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>I'm looking into an HD recording setup, on a Mac-based system. My >question is: how fast does the hard drive have to be for HD recording? >Under 10ms? The system I'm looking at, a 300mHz G3 has an IDE drive. >Will this cut it, or will I need to invest in a wide/fast SCSI card and a >drive? > >Travis Hartnett You'll get a pretty low track count out of the IDE drive. You can probably use a regular SCSI drive attached to the mac's built in SCSI, you don't really need super-fast drives but the faster the better. Go for less than 10ms sek time and sustained transfer of 10Mb/s or more. Martin Shellard