So, after 23 months of regular use and almost flawless performance both at home and out in clubs and bars, my set-up failed badly last night.
XDJ-RX (Mk1),
Kingston DTS E9 G2 USB 3 64GB stick for read, been using this since I bought the RX
SanDisk Ultra Flair 64 GB USB 3.0 for recording (only).
Playing stand-alone from the Kingston USB
This is my regular set-up and usually works perfectly but…
Got about 30 mins into the set that I was recording on the SanDisk stick when I tried to load a track and got a message along the lines of you need to analyse your files with Rekordbox to use the Quantize function, which I thought was strange as all my files on the stick and in my library are analysed, anyhow I thought maybe it was just a rogue file so tried another and another and another with the same result
I stopped the recording and safely ejected both sticks, power-cycled the RX and tried again, same result
I took the iffy stick to my Windows PC and could see the “Contents” & “PIONEER” folders ok and the contents (tracks) in the Contents folder were intact but the contents of the PIONEER folder were scrambled, see screen grab below:
I opened RB but it couldn’t see the USB stick even though Windows could
Has anyone seen this sort of thing before? It’s rocked my confidence a bit as if this had happened live I’d of been stuffed
What baffles me is how the files got corrupted when they were only really being read from?
George
Looks more like the File Allocation Table was damaged. The good news is it can be rebuilt without having to format and do all that fun stuff, but the bad news is it may be a bit more of a process than you want to undertake (so formatting and re-exporting may be easier for you).
And yes, that can happen even during a read process, which is why it's important to carry two copies of your music, and keep a backup.
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after some further investigation today I can report that the stick has become write protected which prevents me from doing anything to it including running chkdsk and diskpart commands on it, I can't format it either because it's write protected.
I have always carried two drives with me from day one, just in case, but this is still a bit worrying
not sure whether it's worth spending any more time trying to fix this stick as they are fairly cheap to replace but this experience has rather shaken my faith in my equipment and not knowing what caused the issue will haunt me for a while
cheers
George (UK)