I record in two different configurations depending on the games I cover. If it's console (all of mine are in the basement), I record to my HP Folio 9470m ultrabook which has an SSD and a 500GB hard drive and I record to the hard drive. I then copy the recording to my desktop PC upstairs for editing. When I'm capturing on the PC or editing, all that's done on a brand new 3TB Seagate drive which is 7,200RPM and has a 64MB cache. I used to edit and archive my projects on a Western Digital Green 1TB drive but do not use Green series drives for editing or anything that requires speed. They're designed to conserve power and thus, are not fast and often can't keep up. If I play my rendered intro (which is in 1080p) off the Green drive, it drops frames. I run the Seagate drive in an eSATA enclosure which provides the same speeds as if it was plugged in directly. Because Canadian broadband sucks and I have only 1Mbps upload speed at home, I use Microsoft SyncToy to sync my entire video projects folder to a Seagate Expansion 500GB USB 3.0 drive which I then bring to work. We have a beefy fiber connection here and I use that to do my YouTube uploads, plus the entire drive synchs to my CrashPlan account for cloud backup. This would be impossible to do on my current home connection (each episode of Retro Flashback would take almost a work day to upload and forget the backups.)
