hmm... here's an interesting consideration: I think most hard drives of the laptop variety and smaller are shipping with some form of the freefall - shock protection system that shuts down the drive if it senses a freefall. There are already quite a few HDD camcorders on the market.. what happens if you take one of these camcorders on a rollercoaster, or skydiving? Will you drop massive amounts of frames (or just not record video at all) because the hard drive thinks it's about to have an impact with the ground?
a related question: on those hard drive camcorders...can anyone tell me if they record direct to the hard drive...or is there a flash memory buffer that allows them to only spin up the hard drive when they need to dump the buffer, thus saving power?
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hmm... here's an interesting consideration: I think most hard drives of the laptop variety and smaller are shipping with some form of the freefall - shock protection system that shuts down the drive if it senses a freefall. There are already quite a few HDD camcorders on the market.. what happens if you take one of these camcorders on a rollercoaster, or skydiving? Will you drop massive amounts of frames (or just not record video at all) because the hard drive thinks it's about to have an impact with the ground?
a related question: on those hard drive camcorders...can anyone tell me if they record direct to the hard drive...or is there a flash memory buffer that allows them to only spin up the hard drive when they need to dump the buffer, thus saving power?
Good question about the roller coaster Ryan!
Maybe they will have to incorporate an override switch.
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