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I cannot be more specific than this but:   All motherboards run on a low-level system controller/manager called the bios - the bios (depending on design) may or may not include pre-settable warnings about detected impending hw disasters .................. stuff like overheating CPUs, fans that stopped running or that are running slower than ...

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VE7AXO: mdriggs: I was just pointing out that these concerns were more of an issue back when Liquid was still available than they are now. Yes, I appreciate that, however, there are still tape-based cameras around (I have one) and that concern still applies due to the streaming nature of the video capture from tape.  That is the also the ...

Me? - I would first ensure adequate ventilation/airflow over the drive all of the time - currently avg day temps here are around 26C and my drives all run under 32C when working real hard .................... (Crystaldisk info or any such util that reports disk temps accurately)   If the drive is not clacking or making strange noises, have ...

Quite possible - but I suspect in order to get to the bottom of this one needs to look in detail at the source material and TL as well as the funky file produced. What is certain is that latency issues cannot and must not ever be found to be responsible for this - it defeats the whole purpose of the magnetic storage medium

Richard - agreed - but those re-calibrations cannot possibly manifest as effectively stream corruption where drop-out/pixelation etc starts appearing (it being ''written as exactly that'') inside a file being produced - recalibration can only be an issue while doing some real-time preview of a stream but never during the creation of a file.

I disagree Eugene - data is data whether or not its part of a program or a video stream. If any corruption occurs due to magnetic head relocation (or any other effect) the storage controller on the disk itself will complain and inform the OS of the fact - eventually the message will reach you as the user. The GPU cannot do magnetic data retrieved ...

The very nature of the storage and retrieval strategy of data on a magnetic disk prevents the issue you are concerned about - the ever present error correction algorithms ensures that you get only the exact and correct bits of data you are interested in stored or retrieved.   S/N ratio of a digital stream is a foreign concept to me - imo ...

If you are talking latency influences during rendering of the final product output (to file), then sure - the output speed (rate of file creation) may and probably will be influenced. However - soon as you start saying that the final output quality (in a file/s) is influenced by latency of the drive I am not a firm believer in that - as Richard ...