Atomos Shogun Studio 2, User Manual

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Backing up and archiving
Remember that no storage media, including tape, optical disks, spinning disks and flash
memory, is completely immune from failure. You should bear this in mind when deciding
how to manage your recorded content. At the very least, you should consider the con-
sequences for you and your business if your storage media were to suffer from a sudden
failure, and you should back up your content accordingly.
Deleting files
To ensure the integrity of data writes and to avoid situations such as fragmentation, the
ATOMOS operating system on the SHOGUN STUDIO 2 does not support the deletion of
files. We also do not advise removing or deleting files randomly from the disk on your com-
puter. Often files are left in the trash or garbage partition of the drive occupying drive
cache and this can affect drive performance. It’s advised that you archive your content
and reformat the drive before each shoot. For more details refer to "Best Practice" on
page 31
File Recovery
Your SHOGUN STUDIO 2 is able to detect when the drive is under stress and it will recover
from any break in a recording by waiting until the drive is ready to continue, and then
resuming from that point. If frames have been dropped because of shock or vibration, a
“Skippy” Kangaroo symbol will appear on the home screen on the SHOGUN STUDIO 2, in
the top left hand corner of the display. This means that you will not normally have to
restart the SHOGUN STUDIO 2, even if a recording has been interrupted by mechanical
disruption to the disk drive.
Taking into account most usage scenarios, we think that mechanical disks will be suitable
in the majority of cases when recording up to 1080p30 HD. Spinning disks are most sens-
itive when they are rotating. It is obviously best to avoid dropping them but many disks
now have a “drop detector” that will lock the most fragile mechanical parts in place and
protect them from surprisingly hard knocks. We recommend that if you want to exper-
iment with this, you do so with a drive that doesn’t contain the day’s shoot!