What shock protection does Focus FS-3 feature?
FS-3 has a number of features to prevent disk errors or file errors when used in high shock environments. The removable FSHDD-1 FireWire disk drive was designed to mount directly into the FS-3 device. The actual hard drive inside of the FSHDD-1 is a 2 1/2 IDE drive featuring an 8MB cache and a rotational speed of 5400RPM. This drive is the same as that used in high performance laptop computers and is of a robust design. This drive also features a sorbethane shock strip that acts to reduce the effects of high and low frequency shock on the drive itself. Additionally, FS-3 features a 10 second RAM based cache (which is shared with FS-3s RETRO CACHE feature), that allows up to 10 seconds of video to be cached or buffered to FS-3 in the unlikely event of an interrupt in recording to disk. After disk drive recovery (which is usually a matter of milliseconds), the cached video will be recorded to the drive without interruption or damage to the existing clip. This sequence is done without any
