Wondered the same thing myself, but further tests will have to
wait for another time!!
On 4/26/12 11:34 PM, Wilson Chao wrote:
> Interesting. I wonder if the "practically full" drive was dropping
> frames only when writing to non-contiguous tracks. So now I'm
> wondering if it would be reliable if freshly formatted.
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> On Thu, Apr 26, 2012 at 10:10 AM, Tim Selander<selander@tkf.att.ne.jp> wrote:
>> We have a HyperDeck Studio (don't really use it that much....) so
>> I tried a couple of HDD I had laying around.
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>> An ancient 80GB sata was not recognized. Perhaps because it was
>> only a 1.5gbps unit?
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>> Then tried a practically full WD Scorpio Blue 3.0gbps drive. It
>> was recognized, and recorded. With an SSD, the HyperDeck has
>> instant response when you hit REC. With the HDD, there was a good
>> 1 second delay before recording started.
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>> But twice during about 15 minutes of testing, it triggered
>> dropped frames errors.
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>> Testing the disk later on esata with AJA System Test, even mostly
>> full it clocked in 69MB/s write speeds. /Should/ be plenty for
>> DNxHD 220 (27MB/s?) -- but it choked. There are now 2.5" drives
>> that I've seen benchmarks reports of over 90MB/s writes. Maybe
>> they would work??? Not sure I would be willing to risk it on
>> anything important, though.
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>> FWIW!
>>
>> Tim Selander
>> Tokyo, Japan
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>> On 4/20/12 3:36 AM, Mark Renz wrote:
>>> --- InAvid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Wilson Chao<wilsonchao@> wrote:
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>>>>>> Mark - do you know if the HyperDeck studio supports regular/spinning
>>>>>> 2.5" hard drives? Given that you're doing a studio shoot& you're
>>>>>> recording DNxHD, you don't need the shock-resistance or the high
>>>>>> throughput of SSDs. And you'd save mucho dinero buying magnetic hard
>>>>>> drives.
>>>>>>
>>>>>> Anybody else tried this?
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