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Broken Red drive & the internal disks replacement attempt

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Paolo Tinari

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Hi all,
one of my red drive collapsed. It freezes after a couple of rec. Contacted the bomb squad and discovered that all media warranty expires after 90 days. Then i allowed myself for a in house attempt to repair.
After trying to format the reddrive in all the possible ways and still noticing the malfunctioning I separated the two HDs for tests and it seems only one of the two HD is failing, refusing to format under different systems or softwares.

Questions!

1- If i place two new same same hard disks onto the Raid mother will a format in the redcam reinstall the raid 0?

2- Are the two hard disks normal 2,5" sata, 160GB 5200 rpm (Hitachi Travelstar in my case) or i'm missing something?

3- A FAT 32 is the format to go?

4- The warranty for a Travelstar is 3 years AFAI read on the net. Do you think i can have it replaced directly by Hitachi?

Any replies appreciated
 
Red has said the drives in the Red Drive have custom firmware to support the camera's requirements.

Having said that, the new 2.5" SATA SSD drives seem to have fast enough write speeds that they may work with no modifications. It would be a great opportunity to see if you can build your own Red SSD drive!

Configuring the RAID might be a challenge, however. The in-camera format is very quick so I suspect it is not a full format. You could plug the drive into a computer and see if its raid controller is recognized.
 
Ciao Paolo!

We do that often on Avid, their brand name hard-drives comes w/ custom firmware and costs 3x more than ordinary off the shelf Seagates, even being the very same drive. All is needed is to disable the "Drive Filtering by Resolution" and it works just like the Avid ones.

I guess it couldn't be much different on the Red Drive...

My 2 cents
 
Keep us posted. It would be great to learn that this works for emergency repairs...
Cheers,
Harry
 
Harry, I didn't mean to do anything wrong, just saying what we've been doing on Avid systems since the ABVB platforms, everyone does it, even some official well known sys' integrators.
We have upgraded our MC9000XL Meridian sys' last year - SD old stuff but we're still making big bucks on it editing Digibeta and Beta SP for African countries; its price tag was $85,000 back to 2002!) - by replacing the old iS36 hard-drives inner portion by 300GB latest 320 SCSIs. Or shall we spend $1,500.00 on each Avid RS300/320instead $290.00 replacing just the hard-drives, using the old enclosure?
That’s Ok to say that research and technology are expensive things and have to be paid by the buyer, but also is fair to save some bucks using what we have learned over the years.

Cheers!!!

M.O.
 
Did not mean to imply that you're doing anything wrong.
I'm just curious, if we experience a Red Raid failure, we could do an emergency repair using off the shelf drives and no additional firmware or software.
Cheers,
Harry
 
replacing the circuit board?

replacing the circuit board?

If the drive itself failed can you just remove the circuit board and swap it to a new drive - since that would presumably have the firmware on it?
 
AquaVideoRed206 said:
If the drive itself failed can you just remove the circuit board and swap it to a new drive - since that would presumably have the firmware on it?
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If you can find an identical drive. Make, model, version and production run. Drive recovery companies do this, but there are an unbelievable number of variations out there.
 
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