Hi folks. So I was recording the Program out from my switcher on a long form event this weekend and the Ninja stopped recording twice without any warning.

The hard drive IS one of the recommended HDDs listed on the website, the HDD was formatted in the Ninja to clear it prior to recording and the connection was via HDMI (720P60) in a studio environment with the unit stable on a desk.

Anyone else have issues with recording stoppages?

If this is commonplace, I'll be looking at a different solution. Thankfully this was a "shakedown cruise" and the recording wasn't critical.

Anyone with a Samurai having issues? Is it the HDMI connection not being a locking connection that is the issue?

Hi, I was doing a concert 4hrs the other night. Testing mine out, yep it stopped, locked up 4 times, but have ran it all week in the office and its fine, so all I can say is the it must of been the heat., of Ndd I went Ndd got a good qlty HDMI CAble.

So it locked up again, so now went to a intel SSD hard drivers , works fine.

What drive were you using before as a matter of interest?

WD 750gb,, but have 3 SSDs now and all seems to be fine

i got 3 SSD (OCZ) dying in a row, so performance does not always match with endurance.

I shot six dance recital programs over the weekend using Ninja 2. Hard drive was a WD Scorpio Black 500GB. I recorded three 2.5-hour shows each day without issue. Was shooting from the lighting booth where there was no air circulation, very warm up there, and the aluminum housing of Ninja 2 got pretty hot to the touch, but unit performed just perfectly both days.

My camera was a Sony HDV outputting 1080i - Ninja 2 saved me from needing 18 HDV tapes, and better yet, saved me the CAPTURE TIME to ingest all those tapes!!

Thanks

Jeff Pulera
Digital Vision Productions