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auron · 11-20-2006, 07:26 AM

Hi there,
got a little question

I like recording games with fraps. Now i got a little "problem". Well notebooks normally only got 1 hdd and running fraps(recording video) and the game at the same time costs a lot of power, because the hdd must record and read the game files at the same time.
I want to buy a second hdd(external) to record on that hdd. My question is if usb 2.0 is fast enough to send the data to the hdd? Im recording in a resolution of 1280x800 px which is a huge amount of information. 15secs of video are like 300 mb

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If thats a bad idea(usb 2.0) what alternatives would there be?

thanks for any suggestions

Edit:got a second question. My hdd is formatted fat32 from the beginning. But it takes centuries to defrag. Now i want to convert to ntfs(both partitions) is there any risk or can i do this without having to worry about files getting lost or anything similar?

PC-Specs:
intel core 2 duo 1.87ghz
120gb hdd(internal)
geforce 7600 go 512 ram
1024 ddr2 667mhz ram

11-20-2006, 07:26 AM	#1 (permalink)
auron Registered User Join Date: Jul 2004 Posts: 6 OS: Win Vista Business	Running Fraps on Notebook Hi there, got a little question I like recording games with fraps. Now i got a little "problem". Well notebooks normally only got 1 hdd and running fraps(recording video) and the game at the same time costs a lot of power, because the hdd must record and read the game files at the same time. I want to buy a second hdd(external) to record on that hdd. My question is if usb 2.0 is fast enough to send the data to the hdd? Im recording in a resolution of 1280x800 px which is a huge amount of information. 15secs of video are like 300 mb . If thats a bad idea(usb 2.0) what alternatives would there be? thanks for any suggestions Edit:got a second question. My hdd is formatted fat32 from the beginning. But it takes centuries to defrag. Now i want to convert to ntfs(both partitions) is there any risk or can i do this without having to worry about files getting lost or anything similar? PC-Specs: intel core 2 duo 1.87ghz 120gb hdd(internal) geforce 7600 go 512 ram 1024 ddr2 667mhz ram Last edited by auron; 11-20-2006 at 07:56 AM.