Dropped Frame Warnings, MyBook External Hard Drive

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Dropped Frame Warnings, MyBook External Hard Drive

Posted by Vincent Strader on July 18, 2011 at 6:39 pm

1920 x 1080 60i footage from SD 32 GB card (eFilm Pro SD/HC Class C6 Delkin Device)

Editing off a “My Book Studio Edition II” Western Digital Hard Drive, 4 TBs.

3.07 TBs available

Had the Drop Frame messages. Closed all open sequences and still get the message.

Transfered all my project files to my main media drive to give that a try.

Worked well for about 30 minutes, then started to give me the Drop Frame messages again.

Can SD cards get dropped frame issues on them after a while?
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Just in case, here are all the specs for the drive I’m using below (but I just recalled last night I transfered all the footage and projects to my main drive so the WD shouldn’t be an issue).

My Book Studio Edition II 4 TB Hard Drives ( WDH2Q40000)

Product Overview (PDF)

Performance Specifications
Serial Transfer Rate
FireWire 800
Serial Bus Transfer Rate (1394b) 800 Mb/s (Max)

eSATA
Serial Bus Transfer Rate (eSATA) 3 Gb/s (Max)

FireWire 400
Serial Bus Transfer Rate (1394a) 400 Mb/s (Max)

USB 2.0
Serial Bus Transfer Rate (USB 2.0) 480 Mb/s (Max)

Physical Specifications
Capacity 4 TB
Interface Quad Interface

Physical Dimensions
English
Height 6.54 Inches
Depth 6.06 Inches
Width 3.87 Inches
Weight 5.2 Pounds

Metric
Height 166 mm
Depth 154 mm
Width 98.0 mm
Weight 2.63 kg

Environmental Specifications
Temperature (English)
Operating 41° F to 95° F
Non-operating -4° F to 149° F

Temperature (Metric)
Operating 5° C to 35° C
Non-operating -20° C to 65° C

Electrical Specifications
Current Requirements
Power Dissipation
AC Input Voltage 100-240 VAC
AC Input Frequency 47-63 Hz

As used for storage capacity, one megabyte (MB) = one million bytes, one gigabyte (GB) = one billion bytes, and one terabyte (TB) = one trillion bytes. Total accessible capacity varies depending on operating environment. As used for buffer or cache, one megabyte (MB) = 1,048,576 bytes. As used for transfer rate or interface, megabyte per second (MB/s) = one million bytes per second, megabit per second (Mb/s) = one million bits per second, and gigabit per second (Gb/s) = one billion bits per second.

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Everest Mokaeff replied 14 years, 10 months ago 3 Members · 2 Replies
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Matt Doe
July 18, 2011 at 6:41 pm

What codec are you using (ProRes, AVCHD, etc)?
Everest Mokaeff
July 18, 2011 at 6:52 pm

I once had pretty hard time w/ My Book Studio Edition while working on location. Since then I’d never let it anywhere by me unless I’m really desperate.

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