Supported drives for D2424LV

[blert]

please confirm which HDDs are approved for use in the D2424LV

[skippy]

Here's the official compatibility list from Fostex for all of their disk-based products: http://www.fostex.co.jp/int/hdlist/hddscsi.html

Looks like the only officially approved disk at this time is the WD Caviar Special Edition, WD600JB/800JB/1000JB. I'm sure that others have been used, and hopefully users will pipe up saying what they are- but that's the party line from Fostex.

I've successfully used many non-approved drives in my D1624s, but they have much lower bandwidth requirements. Let's see what the rest of the folks have to say...

[John L Rice]

Hi Skippy and all,

They used to list other drives, and ship recorders with other drives. I don't know if it's because of availability or problems they were dropped from the list. Some from past official lists for the D2424 and D2424LV were :

Fireball Plus LM (QUANTUM) (high-speed type) 10 to 30 GB
Quantum Fireball Plus AS 10 to 60 GB
Maxtor D540X-4K 40 GB ( this is what mine shipped with )

Quantum of course was absorbed by Maxtor.

John L Rice
Drummer@ImJohn.com