AJA Ki Pro Hard Drive Replacement

[Jeremy Garchow]

You should format any drives with the KiPro. This is an AJA drive, correct, not a do-it-yourself?

[Rodney Kobayakawa]

Its a do-it-yourself drive. I cracked the case and replaced the 250 stock drive with a Seagate 500G/7200 rpm drive.The Ki Pro does not see the drive. I put back the 250G drive and all is well.

[Aja Sales department]

Rodney,
The use of unauthorized drives inside of the Ki Pro Storage Module is not recommended or warrantied. We would strongly discourage such activity. The drives contained inside of the Ki Pro Storage Modules have been selected for their specific attributes and thoroughly tested for use with the device. If you wish to obtain a 500GB Storage Module, AJA does offer that capacity and such a Storage Module can be obtained from an authorized AJA reseller.

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AJA Video Systems
+1 (530) 274-2048 Intl.
(800) 251-4224 US
sales@aja.com

[Jeremy Garchow]

[Rodney Kobayakawa] “Its a do-it-yourself drive. I cracked the case and replaced the 250 stock drive with a Seagate 500G/7200 rpm drive.The Ki Pro does not see the drive. I put back the 250G drive and all is well.
“

Unfortunately it doesn’t work that way as the drives are not user replaceable. Time to go out and buy the AJA 500 GB storage module, it does exist.

[Sylvain Sailler]

It’s possible to replace the internal hard drive. I’ve made it without any recording or reading issue. I used a fast 7200 rpm drive. You have to format it in Mac OS extended WITHOUT journaled option, in GUID Partition Table (use Mac Os 10.5 or 10.6 Disc Utility as 10.7 doesn’t allow to format in Mac OS extended NON journaled).

https://www.atreid.com/index.html?menu=1223&id=4453&forum=5&sujet=50896&action=

[Gary Adcock]

[Sylvain Sailler] “It’s possible to replace the internal hard drive.”

There are No internal Drives in the KiPro.

There is also no user certified method for swapping HD’s in the drive cases- doing this will VOID all warranties on the unit.

gary

gary adcock
Studio37

Post and Production Workflow Consultant
Production and Post Stereographer
Chicago, IL

https://blogs.creativecow.net/24640

[Sylvain Sailler]

Sorry, by internal I meant inside the storage module.
I know Aja doesn’t certify any method for this but it’s absolutely safe and easy to open the module and change the drive. Easy way to save at least 300 $ / 500 GB.

[Tim Halle]

Confirmed this works April 9 2014.
Does anyone know the KiPro to eSATA hack ?

[Joris Robijn]

Well, the connector on the AJA Ki Pro storage module is just a slimline SATA connector, just like on half-height DVD drives. I guess with a slimline SATA to eSATA converter you can connect it to Mac or PC. I connect via USB3, with a slimline SATA to USB3 converter. On the PC you will need software to use this NFS+ filesystem which is not normally supported by Windows. I use Paragon HFS+ for Windows for that. Works well.

Joris

[Chris Mueller]

Accessing the storage module to offload data can be accomplished using the 12V power supply and accessing the 7-pin data side on the slimline SATA connector.

Recording from the KiPro directly to a SATA disk requires an active circuit. So there are no “over-the-counter” cable hacks, but there is an adapter available at https://didacco.com