Oh my no. I work in this industry. Much of the work is using
uncompressed source frames. A lost frame can be a serious problem
when editing and when converting formats. I had thought that this a/v
thing disappeared about six years ago when the internal drive
controller performance increased sufficiently to permit the device to
recal while transferring at the rated throughput. I'd speculate that
these drives are meant for the real-time capture/DVD conversion market
where the drive is only a buffer. Once the video is compressed, I'd
hesitate to keep it on one of these 'a/v' drives.
>
> > Has anyone else seen Quantum's comments on their "a/v" drives ?
> >
> > "Disclaimer: The Quantum AV drives have been optimized for use in
> > digital video and audio environments. These optimizations make
> > Quantum's A/V drives unsuitable for use in applications where data
> > integrity is an absolute requirement. For applications where Quantum
> > drives will not be used exclusively for digital AV, please consider
> > Quantum's non-optimized line of hard disk drives".
> >
> > Gives a new meaning to the word "optimized", eh ? "We made 'em really
> > fast, but oh, sometime they lose bits".
> >
> > --p
> >
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