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smajli
09-10-2009, 06:22 PM
http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/product-PHU120K/

I have rented the 60 gig before (for 1 wedding) and everything worked great for me. I'm renting the 120gig it for this Saturday's wedding. There's not much info about this hard drive but I'm wondering if I can over-crank this baby all the way. I also noticed a "drive select" (a & b) switch which I assume I have to switch from 1 60 gig to another manually within the hard drive. This is cheaper than purchasing 32g gig sxs cards. Anyone have more info on this?

GuyB
09-10-2009, 10:00 PM
My bad on the previous response.

smajli
09-10-2009, 10:09 PM
Sorry GuyB... bad as in bad experience?

GuyB
09-10-2009, 10:14 PM
just that my origonal response was wrong.

adolgin
09-11-2009, 11:03 AM
From what I know you can not over- crank as there is a built in limitation there. Btw, you could own a new e-films HDR for the price you probably had to pay to rent the Sony :-)

Kenny_G
09-12-2009, 04:45 PM
http://pro.sony.com/bbsc/ssr/product-PHU120K/

I have rented the 60 gig before (for 1 wedding) and everything worked great for me. I'm renting the 120gig it for this Saturday's wedding. There's not much info about this hard drive but I'm wondering if I can over-crank this baby all the way. I also noticed a "drive select" (a & b) switch which I assume I have to switch from 1 60 gig to another manually within the hard drive. This is cheaper than purchasing 32g gig sxs cards. Anyone have more info on this?

Worthless piece of Shxx.
I have one; interested to buy it?
If one can replace the 1.8" disk with a SSD version, than it will be something to consider to buy. To many restore errors.
I had better spend the 1000us$ as a downpayment for a RFF

smajli
09-26-2009, 03:41 AM
Hi everyone... I did end up renting the 120gig. Over all, it was great. I think I ended up using around 70 to 80 gigs. I tried to over crank 60fps for around 5 min and had no problems (no restore errors). Here's a little note... you have to turn off the unit, switch to sides "A" or "B" and than turn the unit on to get the EX1 to read it. (A=60gigs and B=60gigs)

Kenny_G
09-26-2009, 10:08 AM
So the drive is partioned in 60/60gb and the firmware sees it as A and B. Interesting!

smajli
09-26-2009, 10:41 AM
Not interesting when you have to turn the unit off, than back on. Sony say's "4 hours of uninterrupted footage". I would like to check out e-films HDR...but than I need another battery : (