Drift Ghost-S Low Speed Card/Storage Error

[MrBrotato]

Would Ghost-S owners please let me know what SD card you're using if you have one that works with 1080p 60FPS recording? Preferably 64GB.

I've bought 2 Ghost-S cameras and 3 Micro SD cards. They all record choppy 60FPS 1080p video. At lower FPS they all work for a while but after a 15-20 video files they say "Storage error" or "Low speed card" and then no longer work until I format the card with the camera.

Drift support said not to use the SanDisk Ultra, but what about the SanDisk Extreme? They recommended PNY, Lexar and a couple other brands. I've tried Lexar and PNY cards as well with the same problems.

I just mainly want to know what card (preferably 64GB) Ghost-S owners are having success with at 1080p 60FPS.

 

[janx101]

There was a thread about this kind of thing a few days back..... Not just with the ghost s either.... Safest to just format the card within the camera it seems.... After that it was good to go iirc

 

[MrBrotato]

There was a thread about this kind of thing a few days back..... Not just with the ghost s either.... Safest to just format the card within the camera it seems.... After that it was good to go iirc

As I mentioned it does work when I format with the camera, but it's only temporary and it never works at 60FPS regardless. So I'm just asking what SD cards Ghost-S owners have that actually do work consistently.

 

[Big Dod]

As I mentioned it does work when I format with the camera, but it's only temporary and it never works at 60FPS regardless. So I'm just asking what SD cards Ghost-S owners have that actually do work consistently.

I only have a 32GB Sandisk Ultra and I had the same low speed card problem and I received the same response from Drift.

I used the command line on the PC to format the card, then formatted it again in the camera (which took seconds) and its worked fine ever since.

Prior to that I had only formatted the card in the ghost-s.

 

[dandoolittle]

I use Sandisks class10!

I always format within the drift and wait 5 seconds before recording etc

 

[monkeystrada]

Another thumbs-up for SanDisk Class 10's here

 

[Shirou]

Thumbs down for the Sandisk 32GB Ultra. They're liars, the card cannot hold 10MiB/s write speed or 30MiB/s read speed as stated on the package and all over the Sandisk website.
I had a long e-mail exchange with support about this issue and they agreed that my under-performing card was performing up to sandisk's specs and they didn't care about what was stated on the package.

Now, on topic, open the resulting 60fps file on your computer and copy the details of the encoder of the video file (mediainfo).
To do that, right click the file and go to details and copy all the info given there.
Or open the file in MPC-HC and go to file, properties, mediainfo, save as, save the resulting file wherever and then copy and paste its contents here, then post it.

Like this:

General
Complete name  : R:\100DRIFT\FILE0019.MOV
Format  : QuickTime
Format/Info  : Original Apple specifications
File size  : 678 MiB
Duration  : 6mn 14s
Overall bit rate  : 15.2 Mbps
Encoded date  : UTC 2014-02-21 18:43:48
Tagged date  : UTC 2014-02-21 18:43:48

Video
ID  : 1
Format  : AVC
Format/Info  : Advanced Video Codec
Format profile  : Main@L4.0
Format settings, CABAC  : Yes
Format settings, ReFrames  : 1 frame
Codec ID  : avc1
Codec ID/Info  : Advanced Video Coding
Duration  : 6mn 14s
Bit rate  : 15.1 Mbps
Width  : 1 280 pixels
Height  : 720 pixels
Display aspect ratio  : 16:9
Frame rate mode  : Constant
Frame rate  : 60.000 fps
Color space  : YUV
Chroma subsampling  : 4:2:0
Bit depth  : 8 bits
Scan type  : Progressive
Bits/(Pixel*Frame)  : 0.272
Stream size  : 673 MiB (99%)
Encoded date  : UTC 2014-02-21 18:43:48
Tagged date  : UTC 2014-02-21 18:43:48

Audio
ID  : 2
Format  : AAC
Format/Info  : Advanced Audio Codec
Format profile  : LC
Codec ID  : 40
Duration  : 6mn 14s
Bit rate mode  : Constant
Bit rate  : 128 Kbps
Channel count  : 1 channel
Channel positions  : Front: C
Sampling rate  : 48.0 KHz
Compression mode  : Lossy
Stream size  : 5.71 MiB (1%)
Encoded date  : UTC 2014-02-21 18:43:48
Tagged date  : UTC 2014-02-21 18:43:48

 

[MunkehsMotors]

I'm using a PNY 64GB high performance class 10 card, and if I try and record at 1080p, 60fps and high bit rate I will always get a corrupted memory card requiring a full format in my pc.

I'm sticking to 1080p, 30 fps and normal bit rate for now, and never have any problems, so long as I give the camera 10 seconds after turning it on before hitting record.

If I turn on my camera and hit record straight away it corrupts 100% of the time.

Will look into getting a higher quality 32GB card and see if I have any better luck.

 

[Spid3Y]

have the same problem!
and i always get 2 files? one good file and the other pixelated as hell...
is that normal?

 

[MunkehsMotors]

and i always get 2 files? one good file and the other pixelated as hell...
is that normal?

This is a complete guess with zero research, but I think the 2nd low quality file is the one that is played back on the little screen on the camera itself when you preview a video. The _thm bit makes me think of thumbnail.

 

[Shirou]

have the same problem!
and i always get 2 files? one good file and the other pixelated as hell...
is that normal?

Like this?

The low-res thm file is streamed to your phone when you play back footage over WiFi. It serves no other purpose and you can delete them if you don't use the phone apps.

 

[Spid3Y]

Like this?
View attachment 899


The low-res thm file is streamed to your phone when you play back footage over WiFi. It serves no other purpose and you can delete them if you don't use the phone apps.

yeah thats it! thx

 

[RoadTo600]

We are using Drift Ghost S also and Sandisk 32GB class 10 cards, on them it states 45/45 transfare rate. Until now we had no issues with it.

 

[AdityaS]

I'm using a supposedly genuine Sandisk 32GB Class 10 in my Drift HD Ghost, but keep getting the low speed error if I try to record 1080p 30fps. 720p 30fps appears to work fine as long as I wait for the camera to power up completely, immediately hitting play causes it to freeze and require a battery pull.

 

[dandoolittle]

I'm using a supposedly genuine Sandisk 32GB Class 10 in my Drift HD Ghost, but keep getting the low speed error if I try to record 1080p 30fps. 720p 30fps appears to work fine as long as I wait for the camera to power up completely, immediately hitting play causes it to freeze and require a battery pull.

Format the card in the drift then wait till the SD card 'loads' - Then record.

That solved my issue anyway

 

[AdityaS]

Format the card in the drift then wait till the SD card 'loads' - Then record.

That solved my issue anyway

Tried that. Solves the freezing but still terminates after a few minutes in with a 'low speed' error. I've ordered a Samsung 32GB Pro Class 10 to rule out the Sandisk. Drift released a new firmware for the Ghost HD that allows recording at a higher bitrate and changing the scene mode to Vivid/Night mode (essentially playing with saturation and brightness), so a faster card would probably fix things.

 

[Shirou]

Tried that. Solves the freezing but still terminates after a few minutes in with a 'low speed' error. I've ordered a Samsung 32GB Pro Class 10 to rule out the Sandisk. Drift released a new firmware for the Ghost HD that allows recording at a higher bitrate and changing the scene mode to Vivid/Night mode (essentially playing with saturation and brightness), so a faster card would probably fix things.

Ditch the Sandisk Ultra, they're rubbish. Get a humble Kingston Class 10. It's WAY faster than the Sandisk, even if it's not advertised on the package.