« Reply #12 on: February 25, 2015, 02:35:41 PM »
In a studio I doubt they are recording to an SD card. Usually there it's to a hard drive though that may be changing to SSD instead.
FWIW, the high end recorder in this link looks to operate from SD card only, so that's where I was coming from when I made that earlier comment.
http://taperssection.com/index.php?topic=171706.0
Regardless, I suspect alot of high end recorders use some sort of flash media as a parallel to a hard drive for file transfers and such. Sound devices 633 and 664 don't have HDDs, though their new 64 track rack mount recorder is all HDD based with no flash media slots.
JoeCo recorders record out via USB to hard drives. At least all the ones I've looked at. You could use a thumb drive or a SD to USB adapter I guess. Sound Devices units are not aimed at studio work, they are aimed at field recording for movies and TV. That is their main market. They dump the contents of the card to a computer for editing so its temporary storage for a limited number of tracks. Studios operate differently and other than a few that still use all analog tape, most run ProTools, Logic X, Soundforge Pro on a purpose built computer with lots of RAM and save to dual drives for redundancy. If they use an SD card, its to save a rough mix for someone to take with them. Now that I've said that, watch the next issues of Tape OP and Mix magazines come out with articles about using SD cards as primary storage.
Just as an aside, I just bought a Denon rack mount stereo recorder that will record to SD card and USB simultaneously. My rack (for now) has 24 channel to an HD24, stereo off the board to a MacBook via USB and a backup recording to my R-44 (soon to be replaced by the Denon).

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