Originally Posted by **********

It's not the tape. Dropped packets means packet loss on the network or the connection to the device.

How is your camera connected to your computer? Do you know how fast your hard disk is and what kind of bus it is using? Also, Don't capture to a network drive - capture directly to your computer's drive.

Here's what else you can do:
- Make sure you have no other programs running that suck up resources like CPU and Ram

- Add more Ram. Computers write faster to ram than hard drives

- Make sure the drivers for your hard disk controller and motherboard are up to date. You can get a significant speed boost with good drivers.