Drive set up and HDMI capture card Help

[wissel]

I've been building a PC over the last few months that I want to use for editing HD video, mainly for YouTube. This is for my work to create information and instructional short films. I've also been setting up a permanent studio with the correct lighting/screens etc as I will be making videos most days. There's a thread on my build Here.

For the camera I will be using a Canon 600d with an external mic and was thinking of recording directly on the PC by using a Blackmagic Intensity Pro HDMI capture card.

The questions I could really do with some help on are:

1. Is it a good idea to record directly onto the PC using the capture card?

2. Is the Blackmagic a good choice?

3. What hard drive set up would you recommend?

I don't need much in the way of back up as once this PC is (eventually) finished I'm going to build a home server.

Any help really appreciated.

 

[King Damager]

This might actually be better in general hardware, apart from perhaps part 1.

For Hard drive though, I'd go with some kind of SSD with decent write speeds. Oh, also load up on RAM.

kd