120GB SSD Good for FRAPS?

[Aeronax]

Hello

If I was to record an average of 30 minutes of footage at 1080p, 30FPS and at half size, will a 120GB SSD be enough to record to?

Thanks.

[Norhams Finest]

is this your main computers drive with your programs and Operating system or is it a spare?

[Aeronax]

It's a dedicated drive just for FRAPS to record to.

[NCAA Football 99]

Just get a high capacity mechanichal HDD. Depending on the rest of your computer, you'd want space over speed, and SSD prices aren't set to match HDD prices by 2025.

[Aeronax]

I agree there, SSDs are so expensive. 1TB Samsung 840 EVO is £450 and a Seagate 3TB HDD is £90. However I heard that I would lose FPS while playing games if I record to a HDD over an SSD. Thank you for your advice.

[Norhams Finest]

You'll be alright then to record to it then. Only issue is you wont be able to keep alot of video over a long period of time. An SSD is usually used as a "Scratch Drive" which means the video is recorded to it, edited and processed on it then moved over to a larger capacity hard drive for storage. As long as you dont want to store a pile of videos for long periods of time you should be good to go!

[Aeronax]

My plan was to have a 250GB SSD for my OS and other stuff, a 120GB as a scratch drive, 3TB HDD for games and a 3TB for videos.

[Big Al]

Aeronax eredeti hozzászólása:

My plan was to have a 250GB SSD for my OS and other stuff, a 120GB as a scratch drive, 3TB HDD for games and a 3TB for videos.

You want the 3 TB HDD as a scratch drive. No need to be hammering your SSD with tons of writes, which will reduce it's lifespan.

I have an external USB 3.0 3 TB HDD I use to record game footage to. Works fine, no bottleneck.

[Joker]

You can get a 500 GB SSD for around $300. That's not too bad. A 2TB 64 MB Cache 7200 RPM Caviar Black HDD by Western Digital is a little over $200. Everything on my HDD currently takes up 590 GB. A 500 GB SSD could run just about your entire system.

[Cpt.Bene]

dont waste ur money!!

[rotNdude]

This is a pretty good calculator for file size.
http://web.forret.com/tools/video_fps.asp

I don't think I'd use an SSD for recording video to. An SSD's life expectancy is based on the number of write cycles and you really don't want to fill up any drive.

You can do some basic calculations for file size by looking at the amount of info contained in each frame. For example, the following assumes 1920x1080 res, 8-bit color, 30fps for 30 minutes.

1920x1080 = 2,073,600 pixels per frame.
8 bits per pixel color x 2,073,600 pixels per frame = 16,588,800 bits per frame.
30fps x 16,588,800 bits per frame = 497,664,000 bits per second
1800seconds x 497,664,000 bits per second = 895,795,200,000 bits per 30 minutes
89,579,520,000 bits per 30 minutes / 8 (bits/byte) = 111,974,400,000 bytes per 30 minutes

There are 1024Bytes/KB, 1024KB/MB, and 1024MB/GB. So, the above would come to ~104GB with no compression or additional file overhead.

[leg51]

i think is good :)

[Norhams Finest]

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Aeronax eredeti hozzászólása:

My plan was to have a 250GB SSD for my OS and other stuff, a 120GB as a scratch drive, 3TB HDD for games and a 3TB for videos.

You want the 3 TB HDD as a scratch drive. No need to be hammering your SSD with tons of writes, which will reduce it's lifespan.

I have an external USB 3.0 3 TB HDD I use to record game footage to. Works fine, no bottleneck.

There is no point in having a scratch drive if you are just going to use a hard drive. By using an SSD youd be able to edit and process video more smoothly. SSD do have a limited amount of writes but really it would take years to cause any problems even with moderate to high use. If you have the extra $60-100 and plan on recording and editing a decent amount the ssd would be a worth while investment in my opinon. If you just want to record games casually for fun then going right to the hard drive shouldnt be an issue

[Aeronax]

Thank you guys for your help. I am strongly thinking about using one of the 3TB drives as a scratch drive as it is cheaper and there is much more space. The only worry I have is a performance drop in games if I record to a HDD over an SSD. Thanks rotNdude for the link to that calculation site. Thanks again to everyone.

[Wampum Biskit]

rotNdude eredeti hozzászólása:

This is a pretty good calculator for file size.
http://web.forret.com/tools/video_fps.asp

I don't think I'd use an SSD for recording video to. An SSD's life expectancy is based on the number of write cycles and you really don't want to fill up any drive.

life expectancy with an SSD is really not an issue anymore with these new gen SSD's , true back a few years ago the LE was a little low , but right now a good SSD will outlast a mechanical drive with normal use even with video recording it shouldn't be a problem.

Now if you are just recording video i agree, no need for an SSD , however if you do alot of editing to the video , then you will benefit of an SSD's high data transfer rate.

[Bad 💀 Motha]

There should be no performance drops if it is a good performance HDD and it is not the drive that your OS is running off of.

Usually the reasons people experience large drops is because they often are trying to run OS, Game, and Video Capture all of a single HDD, and that is where the bottlenecking comes into play and the drive chugs on the recording and while the recording may come out ok, the end result is large FPS drops in-game during the making of that video capture.



Best case is this:

SSD for OS
Performance HDD for your Game Installs
Performance HDD for your video recordings (basically anything that is not a 5400rpm "Green" drive)

By performance I mean something that is:
> 7200rpm and 32mb or 64mb buffer
> SATA-II, III or USB 3.0

For internal HDDs, models such as these should be more than enough performance to house your games or for video capture.
> WD Blue or Black
> Seagate Barracuda

Then when it comes to cheaper drives where you just need storage for backing up files, then that is perhaps a time to use a Green model drive, where the speed of the drive is not nearly as important.