Easily, an Ultra-ATA/100 drive has a nominal bandwidth of 100 MByte/sec. I guess you are capturing over a firewire interface which only has a nominal bandwidth of 400 Mb/s (that's bits, not bytes).
Therefore you will not be limited by the disks bandwidth.
__________________ Lloyd
That's my opinion. If you don't like it I have others
high definition DV / HDV capture on 7200rpm hard disc???
Lloyd thx for your reply.
Yes it is ATA100 - i plan to do it on a Dell inspiron 9000 notebook in the future but not now, just looking at what my future needs might be.
high definition DV / HDV capture on 7200rpm hard disc??? 
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