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  Video storage for WinXP – DecklinkSP

  Posted by Testrun666 on July 5, 2006 at 7:58 pm

  Please don’t flame me if this was a recent discussion point — I just found this forum. 🙂

  I’m looking to build out a dual AMD box (Tyan motherboard). I’m looking to keep costs down.

  Any one have a good recommendation for internal SATA drives/controller that comfortably supports 8bit SD video?

  Thanks! TR

  Sarcoma replied 19 years, 10 months ago 4 Members · 5 Replies
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  Bob Zelin

  July 6, 2006 at 1:50 am

  the cheapest thing that will work well is a 2 port Firmtek SATA card in a 2 port Firmtek external enclosure, with 2 SATA drives (Hitachi, Seagate, Western Digital) – the size your choice. This will do 8 and 10 bit SDI and DVCProHD, no problems. Make sure you stripe the 2 drives together RAID 0 with Apple Disk Utility. 1 Terabyte will be under $1000, and of course, if you need less storage, it will cost less (the 250 Gig drives are pretty cheap these days).

  Don’t cheap out with internal drives – the externals cause no heat issues, and let you swap out drives with no aggrivation. Everything is hot swap, like Firewire 800.

  Bob Zelin
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  Alan Okey

  July 6, 2006 at 3:54 pm

  [Bob Zelin] “Make sure you stripe the 2 drives together RAID 0 with Apple Disk Utility.”

  In WinXP? I gotta see this…

  😉
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  Sarcoma

  July 6, 2006 at 5:06 pm

  If the board you’re getting has ide & sata onboard (ie tyan2895)then four big drives striped on the four sata channels would be ok for 8bit SD…
  …otherwise have a look at the Highpoint Rocketraid cards.

  Cheers, Andy
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  Testrun666

  July 7, 2006 at 2:20 am

  Thanks so much for the response!

  You read my mind Andy — I’m currently looking at getting the following —
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  Sarcoma

  July 7, 2006 at 12:55 pm

  8 x 500 drives will be enough to give you HD as well…maybe even as a raid5 set.

  Andy

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