Re: Tascam DR-680 in the field

["Scott Fraser" scottbfraser]

<<The Tascam HDP2 writes data to CF every second. If you experience a
loss of power the most you'll lose is a second or two, so this is a
"DR680 feature" rather than a "Tascam feature". It might be a
limitation of processor power and the number of tracks - there is
obviously an overhead incurred in writing the headers to each channel
every second, and this would be 4 times higher if you were utilising 8
tracks vs a stereo pair.>>

OK, so this is a distinctly different approach than writing to a hard
drive. There must be a constantly evolving temporary table of
contents, which then becomes the finalized table in the event of loss
of power. Anyway, implementing internal batteries seems the answer if
stability of mains supply is really a problem.

Scott Fraser