displays performance measurements of your hard disk drive and rates it for use with dvstorm.

    select the drive you want to test from the drive drop-down. click the hdd test button to execute the hard drive test.

    make sure no other programs are running while the test is being performed, as this may affect the results.

    the measured read and write performance of your hard drive is listed in kb/sec and by a colored bar.

    the bar is split into three colors:

    red: the data transfer rate is below 5mb/sec.

    this drive is not suitable for use with dvstorm - try

    another drive.

    yellow: the data transfer rate is between 5mb/sec and

    10mb/sec. this drive has moderate performance

    and should be fine for capture but may not work

    well for real-time playback of more than one video

    clip or other intensive processes.

    green: the data transfer rate is above 10mb/sec. this is

    a high performance drive and should be fine for

    use with dvstorm.

    if your hard drive is not suitable for capture, you should get a faster hard drive dedicated for video storage, or you can possibly increase drive performance by using multiple drives in a striped raid configuration.