Is it just me or was this posted 3 times?
Phil
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From: Rory <>
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Sent: Friday, 27 July, 2007 5:53:07 AM
Subject: [Nature Recordists] Re: Flash based IDE drives...
> Rory, if your suggesting that Oryoko is spouting some theory/sales
> hype, might I suggest that your propagandistic attitude with
regard to
> the well known characteristics of the technologies we are
discussing
> here suggest that maybe you are trying to deny the possibility that
> mechanical data storage technologies are well on their way to
> obsolescence.
Huh?
I said in my original post that I use flash memory exclusively. Why
do I say that? Because my recorder is a Sound Devices 702T.
What I said is that I would like to know whether there is any hard
evidence that supports the statements that Oryoko makes suggesting
that hard drives are less reliable than flash.
I ask the question because I follow the Sound Devices forum, RAMPS
and Jeff Wexler's site, as well as this one, and I have yet to see
any evidence that supports those statements in terms of real world
use. With respect to this site, the last time that Oryoko made
statements like this, a user of a Sound Devices recorder said
specifically, based on personal experience giving his recorder rough
handling, that Oryoko was wrong. Just look up the thread.
So I just said, if anyone knows of any hard evidence, that I'd like
to be educated about the alleged problem.
Beyond that, if there is no hard evidence to support these kinds of
statements in the real world - which to date based on looking at the
RAMPS, Wexler, Sound Devices and this site, there is not - it is kind
of a problem if people make and repeat statements alleging that
recorders that use hard drives are inherently inferior to recorders
that use flash. For one thing, it has an impact on people who are in
the market for a digital recorder. For another, it has an impact,
perhaps entirely unjustified (at least for the reasons that Oryoko
states), on the value of recorders that use hard drives.
I'd just like to reiterate what I said in my first post, since it
seems that it is being ignored. I use flash memory. I think that
there are good reasons to do so. But you know, there is a differnece
between good reasons based on evidence, and what appear, in the
absence of hard evidence, to be bogus reasons.
In any event, it is ultimately academic. For reasons unrelated to
what Oryoko says, we are moving away from hard drives and in the
direction of flash memory, not just for field recorders, but also, I
suspect, for computers.
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