Black Magic Design make a number of industry leading video capture cards, including those which can capture HD material at very high data rates. As a result having a disk with a fast write speed is essential. To aid users in configuring their system for optimal captures Black Magic includes a utility with their hardware which records the real world disk speed and gives the framerate available for that speed.
In the first of our real world scenarios we see some great performance from the Vertex 3, it performs far higher than the other two drives, exceeding 500MB/s read and coming close to that on write.
