c-box and SSD other than Samsung ?

I have a c-box , never used it it was a gift from a client who never bought his URSA
I made a 5V power cable and trying to make it works with a Kingston SSD it's a 6 Gb/s 256 GB KC400 serie
the cable has the right polarity, positive on the inside negative on the outside, feed with a 5V 2 amp supply
SSD is 5V 1 amp

the camera doesn't see the drive at all , always show no card, the disk was format ExFat and tested on a computer , working fine

anyone tried something OTHER than the Samsung 850 drive in that box ?

update: working now ... problem was a few feet behind the camera the ground connection was not touching the c-box connection the diameter of my plug was a tiny bit too small

Good for you determining that, Alain!


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Yup, SanDisk works fine. But its not overpriced cbox (more than 500 USD). Its just a selfmade SSD adapter with casual PC SSD dock (30 EUR) with CF dummies (120 EUR) and 2 EUR Switcher with light diode (50 cent).

nice, i'm actually starting building one too,
how do you converted the sata to esata please ?

Hi William - i would suggest thiscfast to east data breakout cable:
http://www.microsatacables.com/cfast-es ... st-brk-891

a simple diode on the c-box would have showed me that no power was getting in

working nice witht the Kingston SSD that I bought, doing raw uncompressed at 24 fps which is what I need

Hi William - i would suggest thiscfast to east data breakout cable:
http://www.microsatacables.com/cfast-es ... st-brk-891

e sata is quick enought for 4K raw at 24 fps ?

Hi William - i would suggest thiscfast to east data breakout cable:
http://www.microsatacables.com/cfast-es ... st-brk-891

hi,
thank you i have already order those
my question was more how you connect it to the drives, as the cable is eSata and docks are Sata
do you have a converter or something ?
thank you

all the docking stations I have seen that supports sata have E sata connectors on them
E sata = External Sata

all the docking stations I have seen that supports sata have E sata connectors on them
E sata = External Sata

Yes but not for individual disk, if you have a 2 dock disks you have a single esata so not the kind of things needed here

The one on the photo several post before for example doesn't have esata


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all the docking stations I have seen that supports sata have E sata connectors on them
E sata = External Sata

Yes but not for individual disk, if you have a 2 dock disks you have a single esata so not the kind of things needed here

The one on the photo several post before for example doesn't have esata


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it has

ho ! my bad, i was thinking it was this one
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/comp ... 2sk-b.html

wich one is it please ?
thank you

ho ! my bad, i was thinking it was this one
http://www.novatech.co.uk/products/comp ... 2sk-b.html

wich one is it please ?
thank you

this one. It has individual sata output.

hey eriklieders, can you please explain me how you manage the power for it please ?
i have try to customise a molex to "sata power" one but it doesn't work well no matter it's on 12v or 5v

thanks

hey eriklieders, can you please explain me how you manage the power for it please ?
i have try to customise a molex to "sata power" one but it doesn't work well no matter it's on 12v or 5v

thanks

No problem.

P.S. I use powerbank with simple USB output (5V 2.1A)

Hi everyone,

Just a quick question. I'm using a C-Box system with a phone charger (2.1V output, 5V power) and 2x 128GB Samsung 850 PRO SSDs and the camera isn't recognizing them. It's just blank under "CFast1" and "CFast2".

Never had this problem before... any help please or point me in the right direction?

I believe the c-box needs 12-24vdc. Check its specs.


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Hi everyone,

Just a quick question. I'm using a C-Box system with a phone charger (2.1V output, 5V power) and 2x 128GB Samsung 850 PRO SSDs and the camera isn't recognizing them. It's just blank under "CFast1" and "CFast2".

Never had this problem before... any help please or point me in the right direction?

put the drives on a computer first, kill the partitions and do new ones in EXFAT and try them again on the camera

my first prototyping of the CBOX was with a car phone charger
my new version had a 5 amp 9 to 30V input 5V out DC-DC converter with a status led inside a small box glued to the side of the CBOX and the outputs are soldered on the CBOX connector

I believe the c-box needs 12-24vdc. Check its specs.


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the original CBOX was 5V input anything above that could kill the hard drives

the later version (with the new name) I think has an internal dc converter

Thanks for the clarification. Perhaps the op's power supply bit the dust.

what our CBOX looks like now
what it should have been from the start