Good to see your success... Me... I'm going to wait until Ross introduces a commercial product.

Glad to here your up and running!
Robert, what are you using as your storage device?

My Corsair 128 SSD formated once straight away. It will ask to be restored after, I mount it on my MacPro, otherwise there is no need. Sony's SXS cards behave the same way.

I used everything you did... but while I was waiting on some parts
I used the ssd for some editing on the mac... journaled...

What happened with Ross.. ?

That's what I was wondering. Perhaps Apple dropping the MacBook ExpressCard slot has forced a rethink? I hope not.

The express card slot is still on the 17" mbp from what I have read... did that change?

Ross' web site has been down all day Sunday so I presume he might be updating it with some amazing new product.

Correct-- the only Express34 slot in the product line is now the 17".

There is more unpleasant news surfacing for video editors wanting to use the new MacBook models. To get the longer battery times, Apple has dropped the SATA speeds down from 3.0Gb/s to 1.5Gb/s. Apparently this has negative impacts for those wanting to use the newer "faster" SSD's. Just what we need - "Slower SATA Interface" speeds:

13" and 15" MacBook Pros Have a Slower SATA Interface - Mac Rumors

New MacBook Pros shipped with HDDs only have 1.5Gbps SATA enabled

After extensive testing of my SSD system on a shoot in Italy, I'm well happy, so going ahead with building 3 systems now.

I'm currently transfering 18 SDHC cards to my edit system, each one taking 14 mins, whilst the 2 full SSD's took 14 mins each to transfer just under 10 hours of HQ -

The SSd's ran flawlessly for 2 days, it was a fantastic experience not to worry about changing cards or running out of power. It was hot, around 28 celsius, but the drives stayed completely cool, even after a single 3 hour recording stint - and after a day, the BPU30 was showing half used !

Thanks to all

Paul

Good to hear, Paul. How are you rigging them onto the camera? Any pix?

Hi Everyone,

Sorry to be so quiet, just when I thought we were ready to go, we made some really exciting discoveries, and I had to stop what I was doing and spend the time to test and re-test our findings to make sure they worked reliably.

I'm posting our announcement on the board today.

Thanks for the patience, I hope you will agree the wait was worth it.

BTW our site was down for an upgrade to a newer version of the software, which was supposed to take place Sunday morning 10am our time for 3hrs, and the company we use thought we meant Sunday morning 10am their time in Texas! Which was 2am for us, so it took a whole day before we could get back online to signoff on the conversion.

Excellent news: I'm looking forward to the details!

Great, Ross... We were getting worried about you ;)

Ned

Lets hope the partition size limitation and overcrank have been nailed !!

Paul

I think that partition size is limited by camera firmware and overcranking is a USB vs PCI issue.

We can hope that Ross has cracked the code without infringing upon Sony's SXS patents, thereby providing a true SATA-2 output off the Camera's PCExpress Card bus. That would get around the 48fps Overcranking limitation. We live in hope! Cheers :-)

As stated on one of my previous posts, I successfully recorded 9 hours on a single usb drive - it is possible, but I've been away filming and have had no time to persue this and find out if it is repeatable, maybe Ross has had more time and luck :-)

Paul

Barry.

Thats the only real way forward - has to be possible indeed - I'm fiddling with this now.

Paul

Well, not to steal any thunder from Ross, but here is the announcement on his page...

News and Product Announcements