A 900mhz chip should get pretty close to full decode speed. Some of it depends on the DV codec that's being used. In my case it's the Canopus codec on a 566mhz.
DV only requires 3.6MB/s so it's unlikely that it's the hard drive unless she has DMA turned off - even then it's unlikely. Any old 5400rpm drive does the job fine - if it didn't then how the heck do laptops do it with their 4400rpm drives eh?
When you say the captures are jerky what do you...
If you're editing in DV then any 7200rpm IDE will do the job fine. Most 5400rpm drives will work fine as well especially the newer DiamondMax80s. This is single stream editing - on a RT2000 and other higher end dual stream DV systems you'll need a 7200rpm drive for sure.
If you're working in...
Yes. An advertised 30.7GB is a 28.6GB drive.
Drive makers calculate their drive size based on a KB being equal to 1000 bytes. In reality a KB is 1024 bytes.
I've got the same drive which measures in at 28.6 with zero bad sectors.
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