#Micropolis A/V drives
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Does anyone else here have the Micropolis 9 gig A/V drives?
If so, 1) How is it performing? 2) Do you plan to change it (somehow) for a
non-A/V model.
I'm caught in the middle of a lot of conflicting info here. Many people hereand
in VTU have said that the A/V models will not work well wit with the Flyer; My
drive seems to be working as well as anyone else's. My dealer says that he's
been selling the AV drives and everyone is relatively satisfied.
Chuck B. states that the AV drives were -never- on the Newtek approved list. My
dealer states he only received -one- list of approved drives a long time ago,
and that there were -no- Micropolis drives on it!
Micropolis knows nothing of Newtek, but says that they will trade in my AV
model for a -refurbished- non-AV drive for $100 fee. At the same time, I have a
Seagate 4 gig drive that I assume I should send in for a firmware update as
well. I'd like to change both drives at the same time to minimize downtime.
Any advice would be appreciated…
Sam,
I have both the 9gig A/V & the 9gig non A/V models of Micropolis drives
both work, as far as I can see, about the same. I can record HQ5 on both
drives. I have never been able to play back an edited sequence without
stuttering although each individual clip will play without the stuttering. I
have also noticed that when the stuttering does occur it is usually from clips
that are stored on my non A/V drive, which is not what I would have expected.
I had a seagate 4gig drive that went south on me and the dealer allowed me to
pay the difference between the price of the two drives to get the 9gig non A/V
instead. I have every hope that 4.05 will fix any stuttering problems I have.
Don't buy the BS that Micropolis never heard of NewTek, back in January
one of Micropolis' tech support managers (I don't recall the name now) advised
me to buy the Micropolis drive, gave me a dealers name and garanteed me that if
my A/V drive did not work with the Flyer, he would exchange them until we found
one that worked. Naturally, the first one worked. If you're not having a
problem with your drive, why trade it in? Chuck has stated that NewTek thinks
that 4.05 will solve our stuttering problems I intend on waiting for that to
see if the stuttering is eliminated.
Regards,
Norman Austin 70743,1535
Norman,
The article in VTU (was it Frank Kelly's?) stated that there was a definite
-techni {cal- {reason { { { { q { {-technical reason why the AV
driveswere not compatible — this worries me, although my drive seems to work
as well as others described here.
I did do four commercials with many edits that played back -perfectly-, so
maybe I'm ahead of the game with my AV drive. After I backed up and restored
the projects, the SOUND won't play with out stuttering, except at one session
when it was fine.
I guess I'll wait for 4.05 <sigh>…
Sam,
I hope we won't be sorry.
Regards,
Norman Austin 70743,1535