• Apple Final Cut Pro Legacy

  cheap RAID?

  Posted by Richard Ragon on August 10, 2005 at 8:41 am

  After months of screwing around with Adobe Premiere Pro, one of the companies that I work with is finaly bitting the bullet, and going FCP.

  They use BetaSP decks, and have a BlackMagicSP capture card in the PC, which they intend to use for the new G5.

  However, they also have a non Mac compatiable Raid system, and will have to purchase a Mac compatiable RAID setup.

  Whats the cheapest, easiest way to get a 4+ drive RAID setup?

  firewire,fiber?

  Thanks
  -Richard

  Shane Ross replied 20 years, 8 months ago 3 Members · 4 Replies
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  Shane Ross

  August 10, 2005 at 9:54 am

  Define cheap…for about $1200 you can get 1TB with the following:

  G-Raid. FW 800 and can handle 8-bit and even 10-bit uncompressed (www.bhphoto.com).

  ALSO, look at the FirmTek External SATA Raids (https://store.yahoo.com/firmtek/)
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  Richard Ragon

  August 10, 2005 at 4:26 pm

  Cheap.. as in. 3-4 Drives (perfer SATA’s) linked in one enclosure, using RAID to where they will work with BetaSP full uncompressed settings.

  Thanks
  -Richard
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  Bob Vick

  August 10, 2005 at 5:05 pm

  Cheap is okay as long dependable isn’t sacrificed. Uncompressed Beta SP, 10 bit is demanding. SCSI is dependable, faster than firewire and not as costly as Fibre.

  b

  Bob Vick sr promo guy @ ch3 wwmt tv, kalamazoo, mi
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  Shane Ross

  August 11, 2005 at 4:39 am

  The Firmtek SATA will do you fine, as would a G-SATA…even a G-RAID FW800 can handle 4 streams of 8-bit and 2 streams of 10-bit uncompressed. G-Raid 500 is $549 at http://www.bhphoto.com. G-SATA is $150 more for the same space, but has better transfer speed.

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