Types of hard drives and usable functions

The functions that can be used differ from one hard drive to another. The hard drive type is displayed following [PARTITION:] on the left of the HDD EXPLORE screen in the unit’s HOST mode.

Hard drive typeFeaturesFunctions that can be used

TYPE S

This is a special format for writing

Writing and reading all the data

 

and reading all the data on one card

on one card at a time, thumbnail

 

at a time at high speed. This is the

displays, reading data one clip at a

 

format used when a hard drive is

time, clip playback, formatting

 

formatted by the unit.

 

P2STORE

This refers to the P2 store (AJ-

Reading all the data on one card at

 

PCS060G) hard drive. It cannot be

a time, thumbnail displays, reading

 

used to write data.

data one clip at a time, clip playback

FAT

The first basic partition format is

Thumbnail displays, Writing and

 

FAT16 or FAT32.

reading on one clip at a time, clip

 

When the [CONTENTS] folder is

playback, formatting

 

not present in the root folder of the

• After this drive has been formatted

 

partition, create it.

by the unit, it is treated as a

 

 

“TYPE S” drive.

OTHER

All other types of hard drives

Formatting

 

• This applies when a file system

• After this drive has been formatted

 

other than FAT16 and FAT32,

by the unit, it is treated as a

 

such as NTFS, is used as a first

“TYPE S” drive.

 

partition.

 

Saving data

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