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Drives for a new edit system
We are interested in what people are using for external hard drives. We are editing on a MacBook Pro with FCP until the new MacIntel towers come out in the future. We are purchasing a Panasonic AG-HVX200 and we want to shoot in HD and we want to be in a tape less environment. Those two items drive us to consider throughput (SCSI versus 800-firewire) and redundancy, some kind of hardware RAID 5 system on the main drive. What types of drive setup are people using in a tape less environment and can you get by with firewire throughput from the computer to the drive? We are interested in a 1 – 1.5TB drive that would be RAID 5 stripped, Mark
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HUGE Systems. Been running RAID 3 (almost the same as 5 from a user perspective) for two years. Superb support. I use the 320-R which has removeable IDE drives in a SCSI 320UW chassis. They also have Fibre, for those who need the latest greatest. Haven’t had a drive fail yet, but when I used to edit on Quantel boxes, lost maybe 10 drives over as many years, and NEVER lost a project. Sold me on RAID 3/5.
Bob Woodhead / Atlanta
Quantel-Avid-FCP-3D-Crayola
G5 DP 2G, 10.3.4, 3.5GB RAM, FCP 4.5, Aja IO, Huge 320R [raid3]
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