PIX SSD Drive Failure! HELP!

[Skip Hobbie]

Anyone had experience with an SSD drive failing? The SanDisk Extreme 240gb drive I was using in the Pix 240i w/ my epic seems to have failed while copying the data to another drive. Now when attached to the Mac via the Pix Caddy FW800 it says "The disc you inserted into the computer could not be read - Ignore or Eject."

Is data recoverable from an SSD? The visuals are just a proxy as my REDmags backed up fine, but (stupidly) out of convenience of XLR inputs, the PIX was our main source for recording audio. Fear I've lost a whole interview.

Help!

Thanks,
Skip

 

[Brian Merlen]

do you have another caddy to test it with? i'd try that first, it'll be a heck of a lot cheaper than data recovery if that solves it...probably won't tho... but its worth a go

 

[Skip Hobbie]

tried another caddy, and can rule that out as the issue.

 

[Mike P.]

I have barely used a Pix240, but could you not treat it like a computer HDD/SSD and start looking up ways to recover data from it that way? For example, did you try on Mac or Windows? Maybe try the other OS (I find drives read different sometimes on alternative OSes...) Also, maybe try taking it out of the caddy and directly connecting it to the SATA (or does SD apply something proprietary to force you to use the caddy)?

Side note: there's nothing stupid about using the Pix's audio; SD does some of the best audio in the biz. However, next time try feeding it into the camera out of the Pix (or were the camera's audio inputs being used for something else?) The camera's audio can be more than sufficient when you use an external mixer (in this case the Pix's Pre-Amps).

 

[Skip Hobbie]

It's the middle of the night and I'm in Cambodia, so my options are limited for trying other things. The pix caddy is my only means of connecting, and I only have a mac laptop at my disposal. Looking like I am going to just have to reshoot to play it safe, but still exploring what options might be out there to recover this data.

normally my setup is some little olympus mics in the camera's front inputs to record scratch track, and then have boom and lav direct to the pix. However during this interview, did not have the scratch tracks... So with losing the proxies audio, today's shoot was lost.

 

[Brian Merlen]

Reshoot sounds like a good idea under those circumstances. Perhaps data recovery could be done, but it won't be cheap. You'd probably have to send it in..Unless the pix240 tech guys could find you a better alternative. I'd try there tech guys first, but it seems like you have no way to do so.

http://www.sounddevices.com/support/inquiry/

Best of luck!

 

[Michael Romano]

Any 2.5 SATA device will work if you remove the SSD from the caddy. If you have an el-cheapo external hard drive you can open it up and pull the drive out, replace with the SSD and try to mount it on the computer. I also suggest trying the other connections on the PIX caddy. USB3 / FW800 are options if memory serves. The eSATA will only work with their dock I think.

I have had HORRIBLE luck with SanDisk & OCZ, I now only purchase Samsung 830/840 series SSD's. They have been very reliable.

Best luck!

 

[Roy Rossovich]

I had force gt drive die last week in my workstation.. 10 months old. Just stopped taking power and completely died... Hope you can get yours working again.

 

[Björn Benckert]

Your computer sees the drive thats a good sign. Then get some data rescue program and usually you can recover most of it. especially since it's just footage, no threaded text files etc. in other words you might get your files back with no name and such. But when its video files that does not usually matter much.


my guess is the disc was ejected while the pix was writing the header so you ended up with a uncompleted header. I would sugest data rescue III or such. if it's mac formated drives on the pix....


As long as you do not format the drive and the drive is alive you should not loose hope. Normally it takes a day or two tho do the rescue thing. Let us know how it goes. best of luck.

 

[Gus Sacks]

Sounds like the partition map is messed up. Download/Buy Disk Warrior and give that a try.

 

[PC Greene]

Best HFS+ disk recovery software in the world is Disk Warrior. You could try & download it if emergency situation in Cambodia provided you have enough bandwidth but make sure you pay for this totally amazing software. Hope this helps.

 

[Olivier Madar]

I had a SSD crash with sandisk too. I got a standard exchange at OWC but i had lost all my data. I also agree that disk warrior is the best tool for mac.