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401 - 2.5" Hard Disks (HDD) And Solid State Drive (SSD) Recommendations
401 - 2.5" Hard Disks (HDD) And Solid State Drive (SSD) Recommendations
When using spinning drives (HDD), you need to be careful whilst recording. The drives will generally stand light/medium occasional bumps without problems, to aid your recording the Ninja/Samurai has an anti-shock buffer. However, spinning drives are not suitable for use in high vibration or movement environments, for example if the Ninja/Samurai is strapped to the side of a motor bike or other moving machinery.
Please follow our best Practice guide for HDD's here:
Use a new drive, or one that has very little usage.
Always format your HDD in the Atomos product
Do not use old drives.
Do not use drives that have been dropped.
On all drives, when handling, keep fingers away from the SATA connector at all times, as static electricity can damage the electronics inside.
Solid State Drives are designed in such a way that the smaller the capacity the slower the drive will perform. Please bear this in mind when purchasing SSD drives
Not Recommended Drives
Manufacturer
Model
Notes
All
G-Shock protected drives
G-shock protection disables the drive for long time periods.
Western Digital
Scorpio Blue WD5000PBVT
Slows down near end of drive.
Kingston SSD
All Models
Do not work properly with Ninja
* These results are from internal laboratory testing at Atomos. They are offered without guarantee.
Recording Times based on Hard drives
Recording Time
HDD
SSD
300GB
500GB
750GB
128GB
256GB
all video input formats supported
ProResHQ
3hrs
5hrs
7.5hrs
77min
2.5hrs
ProRes422
4.5hrs
7.5hrs
11.5hrs
2hrs
4hrs
ProResLT
6.5hrs
11hrs
16.5hrs
3hrs
4.5hrs
Updated 6th January 2012
Please note more testing is being done with SSD's and HDD's, all updates will be posted on here asap. If you have any suggestions for HDD / SSD please let us know via Support@atomos.com and we will do our best to test them if they are available.
