Quite sad story:

When I came into work a couple of days ago, I cringed when I saw an all too familiar problem — my drobo cycling on/off over and over again. It doesn’t mount, and I can’t access my photos — essentially it’s a brick. Again.

In fact, this was the fourth recorded incident Brad and I have had with drobo so far. And while you’re waiting for your new drobo, you cannot access any of your photos or files on your bricked drobo. You’re basically locked out.

When my photo assistant Brad called their tech support for me, they told him my dead drobo is out of warranty. To get my photos back, I would have to pay nearly $300 for drobocare (an extended warranty program). So basically, while my drobo is supposed to protect my photo archive, what it has actually done is hold my photo archive hostage for almost $300.

Via: http://scottkelby.com/2012/im-done-with-drobo/

I am personally looking for a 8-12TB max capacity storage server which performs well for both mac and pc, preferably there should be DLNA support (television access - to display material for customers).

It would be great if there was a solution to (eventually) connect locally through thunderbolt... (for editing stations) and cloud / remote access with good function would be good to have.

Basically, in an ideal world it needs to perform so well locally that it is possible to edit (without big loss of performance) material without copying.

And most important of all - it should be easy to use!

As always, it's a relation between cost and function - I've calculated a budget around 1000 euros for solving the matter (in other words - including some, if not all 8-12tb storage space..)

However, what I need should be secondary here (although I suspect some of you have similar needs) - the real question is what you use for backing up / storing files?

I would also like to be able to connect the drive via USB to my Dune Smart D1 media player. Currently the Dune will not directly read my Sandisk 64g 95mb SD cards which I think maybe a Dune/ExFAT incompatibility issue.

I believe the GH2 formats SD cards to ExFAT.

After searching for a definitive answer I'm still not certain whether to format the hard drive to NTFS or ExFAT. Advice needed - TIA

I also tested some EX3 50Mb footage on a Transcend .. works two.

I think this is cool.

The link http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/805158-REG/Panasonic_BNSDCMAB_UHS_1_Compliant_USB_3_0.html

does anybody know if it is possible to use this to record directly on an external Harddisk?

When I insert the card it's takes the screen to gray. "insert the card again"..until it says "try another card". Could have been fried by the TSA?

Any hope or is this card dead? Hate to toss the (at the time) $40 card.

Thanks

But what is the slicing of recordings good for when writing to SDXC cards? They use ExFAT, thus files can get much bigger than any existing SDXC card.

Do you know why Panasonic chose to slice the files into pieces, anyway?

And do you think that the hacked firmware could just avoid to open a new file after 4GB (for people using SDXC, only)?

(BTW: BluRay disks use the UDF filesystem, and there files not only can get but are in fact often much bigger than 4GB - so "compatibility to BluRay players" cannot be the issue, here.)

interesting thing for us/settings GH2, for example SDHC667 (667x) but minimum 16MB/s so min. 16x8=128Mbit/s !!! for now already on the market and selling on xstra.eu see link below: "Pretec 16GB SDHC Card 567x Class 16" for €45,55 and there is 32GB version of this SDHC. BUT also on pretec the website there is SDXC 64GB, the cards all Class16, AND NOT the older versions (class10, 6, 4 etc.), here are the links:

http://www.pretec.com/news-event/press-room/item/press-room/worlds-fastest-cf-and-sd-cards-from-pretec http://ultimatephotographyguide.co.uk/pretec-announce-worlds-fastest-compact-flash-and-sd-cards/ http://www.ephotozine.com/article/pretec-announce-world-s-fastest-compact-flash-and-sd-cards-18707 http://www.pretec.com/products/memory-cards/sd-card

The minimum thing of Class16 means minimal trasfer speed of 128Mbit/s maybe this can help us the minimum limit (on the lower side) is 128Mbit/s AND up to it's higher limits (specifiation of Pretec).

Now we can do guaranteed minimum of 128Mbit/s ??!! Sounds good, BUT the also the "64GB SDXC 567x" and the upcoming "16GB SDHC667 667x". Maybe helpfull for "GH2-settings" and data is not lost when power is down!!!

Be gentle folks...gentle.

Isn't there a place that has huge quantities of them and sells for cheap?

To summarize as best I can, there are 3 categories of Class 10 Sandisk cards currently under consideration, as identified by the manfacturer's claimed transfer rate -- 30mbs, 45mbs UHS-1, and 95mbs UHS-1.

Here then is a request for a thread devoted to nothing but reported performance results, with respect to the new Driftwood settings. No technical discussions, no test results for lower bit-rate settings which are already known to perform with a variety of SD cards, no "what should I buy" or "should I return the product" questions. Just recording and spanning results on the most demanding settings, specifying the setting used by name and the shooting mode, and (ideally) a photo of the card, since manufacturers' product numbers appear to cover more than one line, and web sites photos often don't reflect the card actually being sold.

Is this possible? Can we start here?

[edited to reflect V.K's, preferred terminology]

Basically, would have gone with the Sandisk 64G 95mb/s cards, but I don't really need to do super high rate stuff at the moment, and wanted to split it up.

Basically, from everything I've been able to find, the 32GB 30mb/s sandisk class 10 (extreme hd video) cards were the thing to get... and I remember reading a number of posts saying to avoid the 45's.

Well... I ordered the 30mb/s, and they sent me the 45's.

Just thought I'd double check before returning them.

There must be somebody with some electrical skills that can do this so that we can increase the bit rate and time we can record video onto the GH2. Unless its totally impossible

• the expensive Sandisk Extreme Pro 95mb/s is the card to chose for best performance
• our gh2 doesn't support uhs-1 technology

but the aforementioned Sandisk card is based on uhs-1 technology, so the gh2 seems to benefit somehow from it.

So far so good...

What I find confusing is that other uhs-1 cards seem, on the contrary, to be not any better than standard class 10 cards on our beloved camera, so my question is: what makes the Sandisk Extreme Pro 95mb/s so good on the gh2?

EDIT after Vitaly post:

Vitaly, thanks for moderating the forum, but that thread is for spanning reports...

http://www.bhphotovideo.com/c/product/764372-REG/Delkin_Devices_DDSDELITE633_32GB_32GB_Elite_Class_10.html

http://www.dpreview.com/news/2012/03/14/Toshiba-Exceria-high-speed-SDHC-SDXC-UHS-I-cards

Currently "Olin" this is the only company that I know of that makes them, could be wrong.

Not sure how much data I will generate. I have 2 16gb card and want to get a fast 32gb Extreme Pro.

Any thoughts?

Thanks!