Will these drives work for video?
2070115
With my limited experience, NO. I use them for storing still photos only. When trying to import short video to the bars, my computer consistently tells me there are not enough space for it, even the video is ony about 1 gig.
1032037
If your using the USB then yes, but I would recommend a NAS hard drive because it streams faster for video's than USB does. Hope this helps you.
516811
They should - I'm a former Mac user and never had to purchase special flash drives - they usually work on Macs & PC's.
677870
Yea just copy them onto the drive and plug it in, you'll have to leave the drive in since it has no internal storage.
14557
I don't see why not. I'm running two new WD Blue 1TB drives (striped) and they work fine.
1833177
I'm not sure; I use mine for video editing in Final Cut Pro, but Final Cut has a caching scheme that makes it possible to use slower drives (while rendering in background). Happy with mine though.
314115
It will, but this drive has been factory configured for storing streaming media from a camera or TV recording device so it is for HTPC or CCTV applications.
883658
I would say yes, these drives function very well and seem to be compatible with anything I have installed them in. If your looking to get the last bit out of your old laptop... this will do just that.
407971
I am not an expert, but if you do video you will need a lot of storage. You might need 1T at least.
1555907
I have 4 3tb enclosure plus 7 external drives .they work.i would think yurs should as well
1506424
It should be able to. The general purpose of this drive is to store music and video.
527440
It'll work no issue ....this MSATA drive isn't the fastest but the price is right
2064775
Good response. I would caution against an external HD for video (music and other relatively small files are fine). I have a Iomega external and I am unable to use it with my video editing software (I am unsure why). Also my external drive will not support files larger than about 4GB (videos).
684476
Sorr y my first answer was not complete. You can down load software for wd and seagate drives that will recognize and format them.
1635765
For a hard drive, any SATA drive should work without issue, I'd recommend a 2TB Western Digital PURPLE drive as they're specifically made for DVR systems, such as this.
1470574
The size of the drive makes no difference. As long as it has a SATA or even an old IDE connector it should work. You may not achieve peak performance specs with such setup but at least you can read/write the data off the drive.
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Can't say for certain as I don't use them. Seems to run all videos smoothly though. The video card is pretty decent.