Tue Dec 18, 2012 3:00 am
Were you recording to a freshly formatted drive?
The way filesystems allocate "free space" can be tricky and frustrating to say the least, and sometimes deleting everything isn't enough. The only way I've been able to ensure performance is to freshly format every card and drive before I use it for recording. This is something I use not only with SSDs and recorders, but with SD cards and DSLRs, it is the only way to 100% ensure you have completely contiguous free space.
This is partially the reason why you are unable to delete clips on any HyperDeck or the Cinema Camera, because deleting files does not give you useable contiguous space for fast recording. These devices are taking advantage of the fast write speeds afforded by writing continuously to a contiguous block of free space. If the device has to jump around to get to the free space, it takes a huge performance hit as far as write speeds go, and that is where you run into the issue where the red light flashes.
Jacob Creedon