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Re: V2.0 good reason for a 702 instead of 722 ... (?)

Subject: Re: V2.0 good reason for a 702 instead of 722 ... (?)
From: "Walter Knapp" waltknapp
Date: Tue Sep 19, 2006 9:18 am (PDT)
Posted by: "Anton Woldhek"

> Yeah so my thinking was, they've got this circ buf that's got potential t=
o
> have a second use as a protection mechanism since if your using it as a
> pre-record buffer it does the same thing. I thought a little more about i=
t
> and I guess your right and the 7 doesn't have something like this. IBM
> started to fit their laptops with a gyrosensor a long time ago which is
> pretty cool, it detects if the laptop is being shaken or dropped and stop=
s
> the harddrive when that's the case. I see your point that it isnt as easy=
 as
> just recording to a buffer which flushes continously and while we wait fo=
r
> hdd to recover fill the buffer.

The HHb Portadisc uses it's buffer primarily for error avoidance in
recording. It's only secondary that it's also used as a prerecord
buffer. All minidiscs have a buffer to handle errors due to shock or
other causes.

Note that the SD hard disc buffer will do no good if the hard disc has a
permanent failure. It's that permanent failure that Sound Devices wants
you to try and avoid by periodically replacing the hard disc. I'm pretty
sure there is going to be a record buffer on the hard disc, though if
that actually detects and corrects errors is not clear. Error checking
is a normal function for hard disks.

Walt





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