EX1-restore data issue

[Craig Seeman]

[mike gorga] “I am aware the JVC camera is HDV. Not sure I understand here. “
Codec is worse than XDCAM. That’s my point.

[mike gorga] “The Sandisk Ultra II High Speed 15mb/s were recommended by M+R when I got their card readers. I bought 6 of them. “

Yes, they were recommending them after people had already been reporting issues. If you search this forum you’ll find a fair number of Sandisk Ultra II issues. At one time Transcend Class 6 were recommended but at some point they became unreliable too.

Right now I’m seeing ATP Class 6 and Sandisk Extreme Class 10 and the latter, with the new firmware seem to be closest to SxS of any of the SxS cards.

[Mike Gorga]

I think I have gotten to the bottom of OUR problem, at least. Can’t comment further. It turns out the cards we have are Sandisk Ultra II Class 4. The Cow is deep and vast and I never saw the thread on the problems with the class 4 cards.

I’m going to pick up a couple SxS cards and then a few class 2 Sandisks for slot to slot backups in the field and give this another shot with a bunch of tests before taking this rig out into the field again.

“[mike gorga] “I am aware the JVC camera is HDV. Not sure I understand here. ”
Codec is worse than XDCAM. That’s my point.

[mike gorga] “The Sandisk Ultra II High Speed 15mb/s were recommended by M+R when I got their card readers. I bought 6 of them. ”

Yes, they were recommending them after people had already been reporting issues. If you search this forum you’ll find a fair number of Sandisk Ultra II issues. At one time Transcend Class 6 were recommended but at some point they became unreliable too.

Right now I’m seeing ATP Class 6 and Sandisk Extreme Class 10 and the latter, with the new firmware seem to be closest to SxS of any of the SxS cards. ”

Mike Gorga, Producer/Director
MEGCOMM Film & Video Prod.
800.816.1884

[Marek Bilski]

I’d like to restate that memory cards are not all built equally. Failure will happen regardless of what memory card you use if they are mishandled or not used appropriately. eg If we keep pressing the power button on your pc to shut down, you will eventually get the blue screen of death…
Memory cards are no different…
There are a lot of new users which have to progressed from tape to solid state recording…and we all have to basically learn a new workflow, how to handle and choose the appropriate memory card based on sound advice…
Just because you don’t get a media error, this is no guarantee of the long term durability.

MxM Express