Storage

@Owners of Sandisk 95MBs

duartix — Mon, 20 Feb 2012 09:51:11 +0000

Can one of you please benchmark a recently fully formatted Sandisk 95MBs with

and publish your results here?

best bang for buck 176mb card?

Azmyth — Fri, 10 Feb 2012 00:16:20 +0000

I don't really need to span.. so with that being said, which sandisk card is going to be the most cost efficient and stable for that? Not going to be shooting for long takes.

Speeding up your SD card (the unexpected way)

duartix — Sat, 28 Jan 2012 21:42:01 +0000

Short story: My SD Card got a speed upgrade from stock and it cost me NOTHING!

Long story:

Bought a Samsung SD 16gb Plus Class 10 (this kind: http://www.amazon.co.uk/Samsung-16GB-Class-Extreme-Speed/dp/B00569J5JC/ref=sr_1_5?ie=UTF8&qid=1327802435&sr=8-5)

First thing I did was format it at 32K and 64K clusters for optimal speed and benchmark it. Speed gains from 64K were marginal, and IIRC the camera didn't like them and defaulted to 32K if I formatted in camera.

Benchmarked the card at almost ~15MB with 16MB files and ~13MB with 8MB files. "Nice!" - I thought, 15MBs is better than Class 10 and since it's 120Mbps it will hold some pretty aggressive patches for a card that costs 20€.

But one day as I was moving FW from my laptop to the card I noticed the transfer speed was way below 10MBs! :( This started a heavy series of benchmarks that were all flawed (basically the problem was that the internal SD reader on the laptop is speed limited) but that had an unexpected development in my struggle to get the benchmark back to the speed I knew it was capable of. In that series of events I used some SSD reasoning "It's flash memory, I should try a Full Format not a Quick Format."

When I returned home and benchmarked the card on the external reader where I originally got almost 15MBs, this is what I got:

I don't know if this will transport to other brands, but I know I'll be doing this every now and then....

Reading images from an unformatted memory card (gh2)

SuperRoach — Sat, 31 Dec 2011 20:58:39 +0000

Morning all and Happy new year :)

While I was camping I got some nice footage and pictures with a 64gig (one of the SDXC ones for future) sd card in a Panasonic GH2.

I'll admit I was a bit stupid in just putting the memory card in, and snapping photos.

Currently the camera is reading the videos and images taken fine, so there would be no damage.

However plugging it into a Windows 7 based machine brings up a forced "please format this card" message. Is there an alternative way to mount it, or otherwise read the data before I properly format it?

Eye-Fi Pro 2X

Brian202020 — Tue, 27 Dec 2011 09:12:06 +0000

I just wanted to verify that this card works with cbrandin's 66mbps patch. It just wirelessly transferred a 11 second static clip to my MacBook Pro via wifi. Looks like transfers on set will be a lot faster and automatic. I will do more testing with the hacked GH2 with different patches soon, as well as whether or not it works with my AF100. Updates to come soon.

http://www.eye.fi/products/prox2

SD card disassembly- Patriot LX 8gb comparison

svart — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 11:11:36 +0000

So while messing around with some of the patches, I found that one of my Patriot LX 8gb cards would work flawlessly even with some of Driftwood's extremely high bitrate patches. I have 3 other Patriot LX 8gb cards that I bought on sale while do not work with the same high bitrate patches.

I wanted to know why, so I opened them up.

Card 1: works with Terraquake. Uses 2x Toshiba TC58NVG5D2FTA00 IC's.
Card 2: Does not work with Terraquake. Uses 1x Toshiba TH58NVG6D2FTA20 IC.

I couldn't find datasheets on either though. I believe the TH prefix says that there are two dies in a single package, but am unsure.

Looking at some of the specs for similar part numbers, I think the TH series has larger page and block sizes.

If you need a HD get it NOW!

bitcrusher — Wed, 14 Dec 2011 01:21:58 +0000

Due to the floods in Thailand there is a shortage of hard drives. Here in Taiwan its starting to get ridiculous, prices are already up 30-50%, noticed its still stable in the US but prices will not be going down in the next 6 months. If you need storage get it now.

Interesting stuff: Double SD cards USB 3.0 reader

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Thu, 10 Nov 2011 21:07:33 +0000

If you shoot big amounts of stuff and also like to make backups, can be useful.

It is called Gizzu GR-336.

They also have smaller USB 3.0 reader GR-316B:

Find more at http://ginzzu.com/product.php?ot=4&group=1&oid=72

2nd HDD in macbook pro

stoney — Fri, 04 Nov 2011 05:53:50 +0000

My laptop is 20 months old. It's already getting old. Luckily @driftwood's GOP1 made it easier to edit raw clips out of GH2VK. Now I really wanna bring the laptop everywhere... but it's been hassle to bring ext hdd. So I decided to install 2nd hdd. 1TB 9.5mm hdd :)

http://www.gearslutz.com/board/music-computers/656373-macbook-pro-installing-ssd-replacing-dvd-drive-hdd.html

Since I have a unibody mbp, I ordered one from maxupgrades.com. Definitely overpriced but I don't wanna take a chance on a cheaper one from ebay this time.

This guy has a blog about it and an installation video. http://abbyandwin.net/blog/2011/08/19/optibay-kit-from-maxupgrades-com/

SDHC: Pretec Class 16

DrDave — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 15:30:07 +0000

Just bought a Pretec "Class 16" 32gb Card at Newegg. Will test speed on arrival. Never tried class 16~!

SDHC and UHS Readers for USB 3.0

tonalt — Mon, 24 Oct 2011 14:27:52 +0000

Didn't find a topic so started new one.

My desktop computer doesn't have USB 3.0 ports. Transfer speed with old Hama USB 2.0 SD card reader was pretty slow.

Test file to transfer: 3,95GB compressed video
SD card: Sandisk Extreme Pro 32GB 45MB/s

USB 2.0
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Write: 6min 36seconds
Read: 6min 39seconds

Then I bought this http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=150601052134 USB 3.0 reader. Cost only ~18$ including shipping. And for USB 3.0 SD card reader I chose Transcend TS-RDF8K http://www.ebay.com/itm/ws/eBayISAPI.dll?ViewItem&item=220851168839 . Cost ~23$ including shipping.

USB 3.0
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Write: 1min 51seconds
Read: 1min 34seconds

I'm happy with the results. Test setup computer's SSD is OCZSSD2-2VTXE120G.

3.5" HD Photo Bank?

_gl — Wed, 31 Aug 2011 12:15:00 +0000

I need to get (or DIY) a cheap 3.5" Hard Disk 'Photo Bank', ie. an external enclosure that can download everything from an SD card without needing a computer. You can get these for 2.5" hard drives (eg. the 'DigiMate 3' http://tinyurl.com/44wg22n), but I've owned one before and it failed after a few months, I have no faith in them. Most don't support SDHC either, and they're typically ultra-slow, meaning it could take 5 hours or more to download a full 32GB SD card - useless.

I'm already carrying a 2TB 3.5" drive with important backups, so it makes sense to find something that can do the same job with it. I only need this when travelling, and only when I'm back at the hotel, so I don't need battery power. I don't have a laptop or netbook, and buying/carrying one just for that is overkill.

Has anyone ever seen anything like it? The only thing I've found so far are 3.5" Media Player enclosures with card readers and/or USB OTG (so you can plug in a USB reader): http://tinyurl.com/3as4hxl

That would work, problem is you probably still need a screen to initiate the copying as they don't tend to have displays? I have a cam monitor so that's OK, but still a pain. And some of these enclosures are far too big, I'd like to find the smallest one possible.

Any ideas?

Good Deals: 32GB SDHC Cards

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Wed, 17 Aug 2011 00:37:01 +0000

Price: $120 for TWO pack.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/684217-REG/SanDisk_32GB_Extreme_SDHC_Memory.html

Price: $48.

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/712659-REG/Transcend_TS32GSDHC10_32GB_SDHC_Card.html

Fast Express Card SD reader for GH2 footage

LukeV — Fri, 05 Aug 2011 15:56:00 +0000

I needed a fast card R/W for workflow on jobs with all these high bit rates. I was looking for a firewire card reader/writer but could not find one. I've been using a 7D with A FW card R/W works great. I came a cross the Sonnet card at B&H but it was $99.00. Very expensive I thought but a must for my workflow.
I went to Sonnet's website. found it for &49.95 . Shipping was extra I think &9.95. So $60.00 US dollars. Make sure to download the drivers for your PC or Mac. The drivers were not installed for me. I'm on a Mac. There is one for $29.95 but it doesn't except the the faster cards from my understanding.
Just wanted to give a heads up. Hope this helps >wed page below
https://secure1.sonnettech.com/product_info.php?products_id=390&osCsid=8d19121e660aa59388a9d4f47200cb9c

USB 3.0 docks

Vitaliy_Kiselev — Wed, 29 Jun 2011 00:36:43 +0000

I already posted topic about my favourite storage solution - Acer EasyStore.

Now I want to tell you about external HDD dock I use.

It has cryptic name - AGESTAR 3UBTFT.

Uses USB 3.0 as interface.
Very quiet.
Speed is above 100MB/sec on large files.
If you are shooting big amount of video, bunch of 2Tb or 3Tb disks and such dock can be complete solution.

Not bad for < $30 product.

http://cgi.ebay.com/AGESTAR-3UBTFT-USB3-0-SATA-HDD-Docking-Station-New-/250802843206?pt=PCC_Drives_Storage_Internal&hash=item3a6503ae46

GH2 and Ninja recorder

Patrik — Sat, 21 May 2011 04:53:35 +0000

I bought Panasonic GH2 and a Ninja recorder. When record I get symbols from the menu and can not get rid of it. First a white symbol for the menu and also a yellow picture of a printer ?? I try to –Off- everything in GH2 but they are still there. Have anyone experience from that and have an idea how to solve it.