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.
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.
>
> An ancient 80GB sata was not recognized. Perhaps because it was
> only a 1.5gbps unit?
>
> 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.
>
> But twice during about 15 minutes of testing, it triggered
> dropped frames errors.
>
> 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.
>
> FWIW!
>
> Tim Selander
> Tokyo, Japan
>
> On 4/20/12 3:36 AM, Mark Renz wrote:
> > --- InAvid-L2@yahoogroups.com, Wilson Chao<wilsonchao@> wrote:
> >> > >
> >> > > 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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