Can a standard USB flash drive keep up with the recording speed?
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It has to be at least USB 2.0. If the TD is formatted in FAT32 the max file size records for approx 50 minutes. It also supports an old IBM format, but you will need to do that format on a Unix based system.
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It's a high-speed drive with firewire connections. I use it for video editing, which demands the highest speed drives. I would imagine that it would handle audio recording with 7200rpm speed disk. You can check out the spec.s at the G-Technology site.
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THE Answer is: YES.! - But you have to get the right one. I have been testing this out for a while now, and buying one stick after another to get the promised 200-300/mbps to take movies back and forth. I found that most USB 2.0 sticks crank between 11-28/mbps even in a 3.0 port. Most cheap USB 3.0 Sticks transfer between 30/mbps and 40/mbps, like this piece of crapple depicted here. You really get what you pay for. the more you pay for quality, the better they perform. I bought a Sandisk 3.0 USB stick, and really got blazingly fast 200/mbps speeds off my port. Best is, if you google a report on fast USB sticks, and only "stick" with the brand names. It pays not to be frugal here.
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Sandisk or like any other brand as long as it is rated class 10 is equally good.. E.g. kingston..toshiba..samsung..transcend could write to 30 to 45mbps is very good for full hd recorders
1924972
No limit. Any kind of CF card can be available and recording speed is not related with GB. Regards
1154687
well is it really?and to be honest it wouldn't matter if it had 2mb cache, at usb 2.0 speed any drive made within the last 5 years and more could easily max out usb 2.0.
2036477
You can also get flash drives with a micro usb port interface. I have one and it works perfectly with this unit.
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No. It has to be fairly large so it can have multiple lane, concurrent access to the flash dies and use an SSD controller. With today's existing tech in the marketplace, nothing small is even half as fast although some products out there only mention misleading best case scenario read speeds while this Sandisk Extreme has the distinction of having the highest performance across several other parameters more relevant to real world use. A safer way to use it would be to put it on a short USB3 extension cord.
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The drive is used for dvd backups and picture storage. When the old drive failed, I purchased another USB 3.0. That didn't help. I recovered almost 1 TB in two days. Then, since I had not yet received the new 3.0 card, I tried using the USB 2.0 to transfer from another backup (a western digital) to the Seagate. In 3 days, I moved about 300 Gb. That was left on 24 hours, too. After I got and installed the new 3.0 (I still doubted the old one), all remaing 500 plus Gb moved in less than 3 hours!. I never measured or recorded the speed. And the old 3.0 USB worked similarly.
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HI .... I only had this unit for a short time, and then returned it! I don't believe it had a "Flash Drive" - Capability. ............. Regards, JCN.
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Sorry, I haven't had a chance to try on USB 3.0, but, I know it's faster compared to my other WD Passport 2.0.
1468110
A friend of mine uses his with a USB connected and runs it like that for extra recording time.
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I thing you can use USB flash drive ,and depend on flash drive space. If you have good network connection ,I thing you can record whole game without any problem, dependent on Battery ,get a long lasting battery.
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They claim it is a USB3, I even questioned them about it, but it does not seem to work any faster than a USB2. It does use a USB cable. It is a good drive and is probably limited by its read-write specs.
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No, or it would be considerably more expensive. 5400RPM / 8MB cache per mfg's Web site. I found it fast enough to please me when backing up data and plugged into a modern USB 3.0 port, but quite a bit slower attached to an older computer that only had USB 2.0 ports.
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You know, I never got past the recording feature not working. I didn't buy it as a conventional USB flash drive. I did not have issues using it in my computer but never created anything on it (so there was nothing I erased either).
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Yes, treat it as a standard removable usb drive, don't run the "backup" software.