[Motmot] Problems with long term acquisition

[discussion of the motmot imaging software]

Hi Andrew,

We have been having problems acquiring over extended periods of time
(in the area of 24-48 hours). We seem to suffer a high rate of
computer freezes and/or frame-rate drops. As it stands, we have our
cameras hooked up to a relatively weak computer system (p3-1Ghz) and a
firewire external 1TB hdd.
My question is more of an request for advice... Do you think we will
need a RAID0 to handle large (>600Gig) files with reasonable speed (no
drop off)? Or do you think that our troubles can be solved with a more
recent computer (the reason that it is not hooked up to one is that we
have computers with onboard video that have 'difficulties' with
running fview).
Or would it be possible to implement a file-partitioning feature that
could start new files once a certain filesize has been reached
(downside: this would mean manually linking tracks from one file to
another, upside: minimize slowdowns for large files and background
changes will be minimized [food shrinks sometimes and messes up the
background calculation a little]).

Again, thanks

Jon