p.1 #1 · Anyone shooting Z6III or Z8 Nraw to an NVMe + Zitay CFE adapter?
I've got an upcoming video heavy shoot and read about the Zitay adapter which converts a mini NVMe drive to a CFE enclosure. It looks like a substantial savings over Angelbird CFE cards. Curious if anyone here is trying this, too?
p.1 #2 · Anyone shooting Z6III or Z8 Nraw to an NVMe + Zitay CFE adapter?
I use the Sabrent Rocket 2230 1tb with the Zitay Adapter with the Z8 on NRAW normal. Its minimum write speeds are as fast as the top brands like Delkin Black or Prograde for 8k/60 NRAW... as long as you don't fill it past the 600gb mark, which the card then slows down substantially to the point where 8k/30 or 4k/120 NRAW will produce the "recording interrupted" error since the minimum write speeds can't keep up.
I was unfortunately recording 8K/30 during a drone show and around 5-6 minutes in, I got the error as my card filled past the 600gb mark. Thankfully the video still saved, but I had to revert to 4k/30.
See this thread for more details, especially post 6:
p.1 #3 · Anyone shooting Z6III or Z8 Nraw to an NVMe + Zitay CFE adapter?
Huh, thanks for the heads up. I got two 1tb cards with the intention to have one in offload while shooting to the other, and cycle them through. Based on what you say that's about 24mins recording time at 6k/60 per card before hitting the wall.
Did you split format yours into two partitions as the poster suggests?
Your command would be different depending on your actual devices.
EDIT: hmm, I see have "Free Space" listed, issued twice, I wonder if that is neccessary?
Shrug, it's not that I perform this a lot, as I simply delete the files off the card, and not format each time.
If I format, I would perform the over provisioning again.
Oh, it is my understanding, you do NOT want to get anywhere near to maximum capacity usages for any type SSD.
You will then experience corruption issues.
p.1 #5 · Anyone shooting Z6III or Z8 Nraw to an NVMe + Zitay CFE adapter?
I'm curious, what would be the advantage of doing this over using a Ninja V and writing to an attached SSD that way? Would it just be so you don't need the external recorder?
p.1 #6 · Anyone shooting Z6III or Z8 Nraw to an NVMe + Zitay CFE adapter?
buggz wrote:
Oh, it is my understanding, you do NOT want to get anywhere near to maximum capacity usages for any type SSD.
You will then experience corruption issues.
That is not correct. You can overprovision to mitigate slow write speeds when SSDs are nearly full, but if you experience data corruption something is defective or incompatible. I don't mess around with 2230 to Type B adapters so don't know about any particular issues.
The first test I run with every new CFe, SD, or other memory card is to do a full write and read test at least 3 times. I make sure that there are 0 KB free and no errors. I use H2testw but there are other options. Numerous times I have similarly tested USB, SATA, and NVMe SSDs also to full capacity without any issues. I've been doing this for over 15 years and aside from one defective SD card the errors were temporary, caused by the card reader/USB cable.
