Solid State Recording

[Greg Cokes]

Hello,

Does anyone have thoughts on which, if any technology they will be banking on for solid state recording off the Red? CF, 1.8" SSD technology etc? Which do you think will grow faster?

I read a Samsung press release relating to their 32gb and 64gb CF Cards technologies (coming soon?). Does anyone know when they plan on selling those sizes?

I plan on buying the Reddrive, but also want a Solid State option for those rougher times, as well times when the camera needs to be lighter.

Is it set in stone that the CF option will only take one card at a time?

Thanks,
Greg

[Jarred Land]

we are testing out all the solid state options right now.. the 1.8", 2.5", etc. etc. Alot of these don't satisfy speed requirements (even though on paper they claim too)

We have however found many solid state options that work, and you can already order them from the website. As future ones develop, being modular, we will try and accommodate.

[10s]

I read a Samsung press release relating to their 32gb and 64gb CF Cards technologies (coming soon?). Does anyone know when they plan on selling those sizes?



Currently there are 16 gig Compact Flash cards (Sandisk Extreme III) available for your regular CF devices, they run for around $300 each.

Why can't someone hook six CF slots together even if they might be too slow for instant writing. It seems a temporary buffer of sufficient size could be built into the camera that would hold the incoming A/V stream giving time for the loading these cards.

For $1800, six 16 gig cards would provide 96 gigs. Seems like this could be an inexpensive solution for someone like myself who will shoot 2K most of the time. Future cards would provide even more memory.

Could this work?.........any ideas

[Darwin]

Would Extreme III be fast enough? I already have two 12 gig cards for my Nikon 200.

[Evin Grant]

I think you need the extreme 4 cards.

[Darwin]

Thanks Evin, Was hoping I was ahead of the game....dam :)

[Jeff Coatney]

It was very interesting to learn some things from this article on BBC.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6677235.stm

[I Bloom]

It was very interesting to learn some things from this article on BBC.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/technology/6677235.stm

Nice article. I think it prooves a point, that if you are using hard drives to store footage what you are really risking is $500 bucks to recover the data should the drive fail. Seems like insurance policies could cover that kind of eventuality. The recording platters themselves are as reliable as magnetic tape. In fact its possible that the platter might be more durable overall than magnetic tape, and dare I say more durable than FILM.

IB

[Michael Hastings]

The scary thing was that the laptop drives have glass platters.

I have always promoted the idea of using 3.5" standard drives for long term storage figuring that if you had a number of the same type of drives, somehow you would be able to get the data, as the magnetic media on the platter itself is pretty robust. The trick is making the drive work if say the platters or read arms are stuck due to sitting but it seems that the drive repair guys could handle that sort of thing easily - particularly if you had another identical drive that was working to swap the platters.



Nice article. I think it prooves a point, that if you are using hard drives to store footage what you are really risking is $500 bucks to recover the data should the drive fail. Seems like insurance policies could cover that kind of eventuality. The recording platters themselves are as reliable as magnetic tape. In fact its possible that the platter might be more durable overall than magnetic tape, and dare I say more durable than FILM.

IB