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I recorded a live show last night with my UFX and also armed and recorded all inputs to a PNY USB 2.0 32GB flash drive through the DuRec feature. My external drive crashed the next day so I used the Batch Processor on the USB files. There is skipping throughout every minute of the audio. It sounds just like when a scratched CD skips. The audio is comletely unusable. I armed each individual input to the UFX and hit record before the show. Have I done something wrong? Why would the audio have been corrupted?

I did not. My mistake. Had limited time to prepare and thought i had my bases covered with a brand new PNY USB 2.0 stick. Guess not. I did some tests today. With only 1 channel armed and recorded through DuRec I got 40 errors in a 4 minute recording. 6 errors in an 18 second recording. Could this mean the stick is simply no good? I am able to copy, transfer files with no problem from my Mac and PC but it constantly gets errors when used for DuRec recording. The Max R/W Time shows 2912ms. This doesnt sound right does it?

It is indeed formatted to FAT32 by the way. The show was insignificant and I used it as a test recording anyhow so its no biggy that the files are botched. Ill run some tests with an external 5400 and see what I come up with.

My UFX seems not to like powering-up 2,5" HDD's. Tried one samsung, one hitachi and another trekstore from which i do not know the built-in model, but for all of these i need external additional power to run. Is that normal? The drives make a kind of "flipping" sound, they just do say: "too less power!".
With external power / usb-sticks, durec fits all my needs (as i've got not enough mics for 32Ch and don't need 24/96).
And by the way: These UFX drivers are awesome!! I never had a soundcard that could be plugged while a computer game was running! This device just starts to play when it is ready. Maybe as well some reason for win7, but this is really, really great! Congratulations!

The test is useless ast 33%. Enable more channels until it fails!

Test is the same with digital zero (input unused).

Now that the serch is over. I'd like to add a request. Can we find something with similar performances, small enough so it stays in the slot while closing the lid of the rack case.

Has anyone tried the Patriot Supersonic USB 3.0 - S-Mini. I always loose usb sticks. I would like to open the lid of the rack case and see the stick allready in there. Almost like it would be built in and that new USB 3.0 drive would do perfect. They also make the Tab 3.0 that's very small.

Has anyone tested them or something similar?

-Thanks

It's an alternative. I decided to get the Sandisk Extreme anyway. I would love to see the smaller minis or macros work at some point. They could just be left in and it would almost look like part of the UFX. I'm on tour right now in Australia and here things are not cheap and sometimes not distributed. I'll do some tests when I get back with smaller drives. But in the mean time if someone allready did tests with the Patriot's Tab and S-Mini, I would not waste my time and money. Also, Kingston and Sandisk makes USB 2.0 minature macro drives that I wish to test. I'll let you know but it seems the S-Minis are not distributed here.

Thanks

Hi MC,

I just got my scandisk extreme 32gb and running some tests. How did you get to 34 tracks @ 96k? I can only get 30 channels @ 48k or 22 channels @ 96k wich seems right for smux. I don't see how it can do more.

22 channels @ 96k runs at 52% no errors 01:24:11 runtime
30 channels @ 48k runs at 35% no errors 02:03:29 runtime

Fast stick!

Now I am... Amazing! Thanks!

Any new Thumb or flash media that works?

Ok I am aware you can record the ouput, but it's not clear why one would other than for something mixed.

Care to enlighten me?

Thank you,

I just picked up a Sandisk Cruzer Glide 64,  Did a short test of 18 tracks at 48, looks good, will be recording two two hour shows this weekend, that's my real test...

(this is usb 2.0)

Ok you're right, my aforementioned test would only tell me that it does or does not work in that setting and track count.

That information would be of little benefit to anyone considering this product.

I just ran 34 channels at 96 for 10 minutes plus.  Usb load was 85 to 87 %, Zero errors, and when looking at the max R/W time for a bit it crested at 107.  Now that recording has stopped it's reading at 88ms. 

Not sure why it doesn't display the higher value I saw.

I feel confident my 18 tracks at 48 will be a breeze. Will report back after the weekend.

Hi Matthias,

did you ever try the "successor" the PRO version ??

http://direkt.jacob-computer.de/sandisk … 75950.html

Many Thanks

Got the SanDisk Extreme 64GB now. Its amazing .. 60 channels @44.1 and HD 63% and 0 errors.
Extremely cool, thanks for this recommendation thread.

I'm just throwing this in here as a warning to anybody eyeing the Sandisk Ultra Fit USB flash drives as the perfect fit for recording off the front of the Fireface UFX - DON'T DO IT. These drives have a brutally slow write delays. They appear to work for 2 channels of 1fs, but it can't even do two channels of 96k reliably. They just don't work for this, which is unfortunate because the form factor is ideal for the front panel of the UFX. I did just now dig up a post mentioning this issue, but it's unfortunate I didn't find out about these issues until it was too late to return it. (http://forum.rme-audio.de/viewtopic.php … 593#p99593). I'm just putting this out as a warning.

Also, if anybody else has come across a similar, but working, small form USB stick that fits neatly on the front panel of the UFX, I would love to hear about it.

Austrian manufacturer Angelbird provided us with the 128 GB variety of the external SSD 2 go pocket, a USB 3 device. The drive works flawlessly with the UFX, recording 60 channels at a constant load of about 70% (USB 2, obviously). Since this did not really make the little thing break a sweat, I then tried it on my Mac, recording 390 channels across USB 3, which also worked fine.

NB: Use of this drive with the UFX requires reformatting to FAT32 (factory default is exFAT).
The Fat32Formatter software worked for me here. The drive comes with a short and slightly stiff cable with USB 3.0 Type A connectors on both sides. The drive's TBW rating of 262 TB will let you fill it up completely more than 2000 times, which would then result in a price of well under € 0.10 per 128 GB recording session...

You need FAT 32. No other way...

Regards
Daniel Fuchs
RME

And you have to make sure that FAT32 partition is the only one. No hidden one etc.

OK, new SSD individ of the SanDisk Extreme Pro, This time a 480 Gb. Still same behavior. When I look at the disc in SanDisk SSD Dashboard there is indeed a 0,12 GB segment indicated Other. It then seems apparent that this is the segment UFX looks at and consequently resulting in FS Error the question must be: How on earth do I format the device so this is included OR how do I get the FAT32 segment to be regarded as the first. I will contact SanDisk chat as soon as they open to see if they can shed some light. Apparently HP USB Disc Storage Format Tool 2.2.3 nor disc tool in OSX has the needed capability. If any community member can give the needed hint, you're more than welcome.

OK, there is no indication of that part in the Disk Manager. Then I am entirely clueless.

Please try Fat32Formatter. I've found that this software works reliably, while other means have at times not worked, for some reason (as in the test of the Angelbird SSD above).

Regards
Daniel Fuchs
RME

The disk load is shown in the Record View in Totalmix.

I am quite sure there is nothing wrong with your disk. The SSD I tried was also not seen when I formatted it with another program, much like here.

As you can see in this thread, finding a usable USB pen drive can be dfifficult. My alternative is using an SD card reader, you will find posts about that here in this thread. Very stable disk load, no interruptions, good performance.

Regards
Daniel Fuchs
RME