Concerning pro audio disk drive recorders:
In one of the more recent press release, the Syjet was chosen for Vestax's audio hard drive recorder. Here is a newsgroup posting I found with a little more detail about this market. I had already heard that Roland was thinking about moving to Syjet. Apparently this poster had spoken with the company reps. I don't necessarily believe this means there is anything wrong here, but it may seem that particular market is preferring syjets.
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Subject: VS880 and JAZ drives
From: dantx@aol.com (DanTx)
Date: Wed, Dec 10, 1997 11:32 EST
Message-id: <19971210163201.LAA07876@ladder02.news.aol.com>
Roland and E-Mu are experiencing serious problems with JAZ drive media. It's not the drives, it's the media, so the problem is intermittent. The problem is critical and unrecoverable dropout. It's enough of a problem that both manufacturers are taking serious action.
E-Mu recalled all JAZ equiped samplers from dealer stock, and is replacing the drives with hard disks.
Roland has discontinued production of the VS880s with internal JAZ drives. If you have one already, contact Roland. Our regional rep said they are making arrangements to replace the drives with 1Gig+ hard drives.
I asked about using external JAZ drives to backup in archive mode. He got a pained look and said that there were fewer problems with backups verses direct recording, but he would still suggest using either a ZIP drive in archive mode (his first choice) or a SyJet (either recording directly to it, or archiving on it).
I talked with two people who own 880s with internal JAZ drives and neither has experienced a problem yet, but both plan to exchange them for hard drive units. (And both are backing up existing recordings on their JAZ drives to a ZIP drive ASAP.)
Regards,
Dan |
