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  RAID speed comparison for Digital Cinema DIT work

  Posted by Simon Percival on May 2, 2012 at 12:09 pm

  Hi guys,

  New to this forum as a member, but have been browsing topics for many years!

  I wonder if anyone can offer some advice…?

  I am working in house for a company producing videos – up until now on tape based cameras and DSLRs, but now moving into shooting on Red One/MX, Epic, Arri Alexa etc.

  I have in place an 8-core Mac Pro with a lot of RAM, decent monitors etc. I have been using a Red Rocket to play back and transcode – although this is rented currently so we will be purchasing our own card.

  I have also been backing up to three eSata drives (mainly GTechs) – one as my master backup, two as ‘client drives’.

  Now I think we should be going down the route of RAID – and specifically an external, RAID-5 level rackmount system.

  It seems that mini-SAS is quite prevalent, and I’ve seen a number of setups which use this connector;

  JMR Bluestor 16 bay 16TB – quite expensive, but as far as I can see a very fast option
  Sonnet Fusion R800 8 bay 16TB – less money, but read/write figures a bit less
  Proavio S8MS 8 bay 16TB – again at a lower pricepoint than the JMR – but can’t really make out the read/write figures in RAID 5 for this…

  What I’m saying is that I’m confused. As much as I can decipher, (obviously) the more you spend the faster the setup…

  But how much difference will this make to me on set? If I need to backup to a RAID, then copy to 2x eSata drives, then transcode with the Red Rocket…am I going to struggle with using a Sonnet (for example) compared with something like the JMR?

  Or, in anyone’s experience, is an 8bay 16TB miniSAS RAID 5 array easily enough to handle a standard Red shoot (backups/transcoding)?

  Sorry about the length of this post! Any help whatsoever would be appreciated…

  Simon

  Jon Schilling replied 14 years, 4 months ago 2 Members · 1 Reply
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  Jon Schilling

  May 2, 2012 at 4:17 pm

  Simon,

  You’re welcome to email us for the benchmark speeds on the S8MS (my email is in my tag). We now have a new product, the 16 bay rack-mount, IS316JS (Introduced at NAB)https://forums.creativecow.net/readpost/362/11 which is mini-SAS (expandable to 144TB) at 1200 MB/s.

  Jonathan Schilling
  Vertical Sales Manager
  Proavio
  12221 Florence Ave.
  Santa Fe Springs, CA 90670
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  Email: jon@proavio.com

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