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Upgrading Hard Drive in Sony HDR-SR1 HDD Camcorder

Posted by timothy on from the shoot-your-children-more-effectively dept.

clarkbox2 writes "Here is an interesting page detailing the cracking open of a $1400 camcorder just released by Sony. The pictures and text describe the opening of the outer shell, revealing the 1.8" Toshiba hard drive within. The HDR-SR1 ships with a tiny 30gb hard drive, allowing for four hours of recording in full HD. Great pictures showing the steps to recording bliss ... now where to get a battery capable of lasting for 12+ hours of full HD video?"

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  1. system design by oohshiny · · Score: 3, Insightful

    Maybe the 30G drive is just in there to keep the price down. But maybe it's part of the overall system design--a good compromise between battery life, size, weight, robustness, etc. So, I wouldn't blindly assume that putting an 80G drive into the device will make a better camcorder.

    Note that the 80G drives that the article mentions are found in iPods are actually in iPods that are substantially thicker than the iPods using 30G drives.