This is so True, when I had my first PMD-690 I lost 2 hours worth of
what I thought was valuable recordings, at the time of recording I was
thrilled to bits of my capture, then later that day, I found that the
write phase failed on me, I was devastated, then I lost all data on a
340mb IBM Microdrive the very next week.
I would never put my faith in a drive bigger than 1 Gig, the prices for
these drives are very reasonable.
I must say since that period, I haven't had those problems but it is in
the back of my mind.
The read/write phase of the new PMD-670 is a lot quicker in the field
and I have banged it a couple of times and escaped the inevitable, I
think Marantz has buffered this to a degree. I do love the flashcard
recorders though and the quality is spot on!
The other thing I like is the portable flashcard storage, I can transfer
up to 40gigs direct from a flashcard onto a battery driven hard drive
when in the field and if the batteries fail, transfer reverts to normal
and no data is lost.
Martyn
Martyn Stewart
Jardiniere Plant Maintenance &
Naturesound.Org
-----Original Message-----
From: Doug Von Gausig
Sent: Wednesday, August 27, 2003 4:41 PM
To:
Subject: Re: [Nature Recordists] extended recording
At 03:28 PM 8/27/2003, oryoki wrote:
>Minidisc users who are happy changing discs every 80 minutes need
>read no further...
(snip)
>The 4GB microdrive is a good match with Marantz's PMD-670 recorder
>(~$600), which has a Type 2 Compactflash slot and FAT32 file system.
>4GB of storage means the PMD-670 can record DAT-quality uncompressed
>stereo for six hours. If MP2 compression is OK, then you could
>capture more than 24 hours of stereo non-stop.
I can imagine nothing worse than having 12-24 hours of original
recordings
on a microdrive unit when it crashes because I jostled it during it's
read/write phase. Canon cautions digital camera users that microdrives
are
great in their high-end cameras, but you need to be very careful not to
jar
it while it's writing. They say (and I have no [personal experience to
verify or deny this) that the drives are very sensitive to physical
shock
while they're writing/reading. Perhaps they are being overly
pessimistic,
but what if...
Doug
Doug Von Gausig
Clarkdale, Arizona, USA
Moderator
Nature Recordists e-mail group
http://groups.yahoo.com/group/naturerecordists
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